ABSTRACT While academic and policy analyses have explored universities’ roles in urban regeneration and regional development, issues arising from intraurban collaboration and competition in multi-university city-regions have received scant attention. In response, this paper examines how higher education institutions (HEIs) connect and splinter urban space at multiple scales through a case study of Newark, NJ, USA. Newark’s attempts to reposition itself as a hub for university-enabled innovation disclose the complex ways in which the infrastructures of knowledge urbanism are implemented, negotiated, and spatialized at local and city-regional scales. The study’s multi-disciplinary analysis assesses the discourses, technologies, and territorial constellations through which HEIs (re)shape place and project urban peripheries into wider city-regional networks. The paper’s findings reveal an emergent and decentred ‘de facto’ form of university regionalism crystallizing in Greater New York that illustrates the need for robust, scalar-sensitive assessments of anchor institution strategies as they are articulated within broader regionalization processes.

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锚定（在）该地区：美国新泽西州纽瓦克大学参与的城市发展动态

摘要 虽然学术和政策分析探讨了大学在城市更新和区域发展中的作用，但多大学城市区域的城市内合作和竞争引起的问题却很少受到关注。作为回应，本文通过美国新泽西州纽瓦克的案例研究，研究了高等教育机构 (HEI) 如何在多个尺度上连接和分裂城市空间。纽瓦克试图将自己重新定位为大学支持的创新中心，揭示了知识城市化基础设施在地方和城市-区域范围内实施、协商和空间化的复杂方式。该研究的多学科分析评估了话语、技术、和领土星座，高等教育机构通过这些星座（重新）塑造地方并将城市外围投射到更广泛的城市-区域网络中。该论文的研究结果揭示了一种新兴的、去中心化的“事实上”形式的大学区域主义在大纽约地区形成，这说明需要对锚定机构战略进行稳健的、对标量敏感的评估，因为它们在更广泛的区域化过程中得到了阐述。