Hull, James (2007) The Expert Professor: C.R. Young and the Toronto Building Code. Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, 1 (1). pp. 86-94. ISSN 1913 046

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Abstract

In their insatiable thirst for funding, contemporary universities eagerly cast themselves as important agents of economic well-being. While the particular contexts and forms for this agency may be novel, such a role is not. Historians have long identified the significance of academic institutions to economic development at a number of levels. At the national level, the importance of the Technische Hochschulen and the Land Grant colleges to German and American leadership in the Second Industrial Revolution is well known while the significance of its system of higher education to a putative British industrial decline is more controversial (Oleson and Voss 1979, Sinclair 1980, Fox and Guagnini 1993, Dienel 1995, Edgerton 1996, Pfammatter 2000). At the sub-national level, taking the example of Ontario, Canada, McKillop (1994, 149) observes that “an adjustment of universities to the conditions and requirements of industrial life was an essential ingredient in economic competition and development,” with no university “untouched by the province’s industrial revolution and the secular gospel of research.” At the municipal level, in their study of three US cities, Kargon and Knowles (2002, 1) have seen local institutions of higher education “reacting quickly and creatively to unpredictable demands for expertise.” It is this function of universities, or rather of their professoriates, as sources of local expertise which forms the focus of this paper

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Item Type:	Published Article or Volume
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Hull, James james.hull@ubc.ca
Keywords:	Toronto, civil engineering, expertise, science and technology studies, building codes
Subjects:	General Issues > History of Science Case Studies General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Technology
Depositing User:	Jessie Hall
Date Deposited:	17 Dec 2018 17:53
Last Modified:	17 Dec 2018 17:53
Item ID:	15465
Journal or Publication Title:	Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science
Publisher:	The University of Toronto
Official URL:	https://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca...
DOI or Unique Handle:	https://doi.org/10.4245/sponge.v1i1.2974
Subjects:	General Issues > History of Science Case Studies General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Technology
Date:	December 2007
Page Range:	pp. 86-94
Volume:	1
Number:	1
ISSN:	1913 046
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15465

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