The City as Campus
We are witnessing an explosion of universities and campuses nationwide, and urban schools play an important role in shaping the cities outside their walls. In The City as Campus , Sharon Haar uses Chicago as a case study to examine how universities interact with their urban contexts, demonstrating how higher education became integrated with ideas of urban growth as schools evolved alongside the city. The City as Campus shows the strain of this integration, detailing historical accounts of battles over space as campus designers faced the challenge of weaving the social, spatial, and architectur
277 pages, 3 editions
English edition · First published 2011 by University of Minnesota Press · ISBN 9780816675135
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3 editions
English
- The City as Campus · University of Minnesota Press · 2011 · ISBN 9780816675135 This page
- The City as Campus: Urbanism and Higher Education in Chicago · University of Minnesota Press · 2011 · ISBN 9781452946528
- The City as Campus: Urbanism and Higher Education in Chicago · University of Minnesota Press · 2011 · ISBN 9780816665655
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