The City as Campus : Urbanism and Higher Education in Chicago /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haar, Sharon, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Universities and colleges.
Community and college.
Architecture and society.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Architecture et societe > Illinois > Chicago.
Universites > Illinois > Chicago.
Relations universite-collectivite > Illinois > Chicago.
Architecture and society > Illinois > Chicago.
Universities and colleges > Illinois > Chicago.
Community and college > Illinois > Chicago.
Illinois > Chicago.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 into new forms to meet the changing needs of academia.
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780816675135

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