The City as Campus: Urbanism and Higher Education in Chicago
Sharon Haar
Abstract
We are witnessing an explosion of universities and campuses nationwide, and urban schools play an important role in shaping the cities outside their walls. This book 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 book 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 architectural conditions of the urban milieu in ... More
Keywords: universities, campuses, urban schools, Chicago, higher education, urban growth, integration
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780816665648 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015 | DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816665648.001.0001 |
