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The City as Campus: Urbanism and Higher Education in Chicago
Sharon Haar
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Description for The City as Campus: Urbanism and Higher Education in Chicago
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 74 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 180 x 16. Weight in Grams: 578.
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 architectural conditions of the urban milieu into new ... Read more
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 architectural conditions of the urban milieu into new ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816665655
SKU
V9780816665655
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About Sharon Haar
Sharon Haar is associate professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Reviews for The City as Campus: Urbanism and Higher Education in Chicago
"In The City as Campus, Sharon Haar illuminates the highly-charged relationship of higher education to the American metropolis, using as a case study the University of Illinois, Chicago, the exemplary model of the massive urban commuter campus that has become the dominant form of higher education in so many metropolitan regions." —Robert Fishman, University of Michigan