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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Haar, Sharon, 1962-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • New institutions for a new environment : pedagogical space in the progressive city
  • City as laboratory : Hull-House and the rise of the Chicago School
  • Modern city, modern campus : institutional expansion and urban renewal in the postwar era
  • Classrooms off the expressway : a new mission for higher education
  • "Model of the modern urban university" : the new spatial form of the Chicago Circle campus
  • Campus revolt : the reform of the commuter university
  • City as campus : university space in the global city
  • Conclusion.

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