The present paper deals with problem of the future of universities regarded by the author as the most important element of higher education; as such they should play an outstanding role. Therefore, university should not be a high school producing plenty of specialists but a place where the country's intellectual elites are educated.
Cities and towns are subject of many disciplines, often researching into similar aspects with use of similar methods, though each of them enriches the knowledge with its own perspective. Similar interests and sharing researching fields leads to interdisciplinary studies and hybrid disciplines, as e.g. 'urban studies' developed in the West. In the paper, similar and different views from diverse disciplines in this field are described, juxtaposed during recent conference held at the University of Warsaw.
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