The City as Campus: Urbanism and Higher Education in Chicago

by Haar, Sharon

• ISBN13: 9780816665655
• ISBN10: 0816665656
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-08
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

We are witnessing an explosion of universities and campuses nationwide, and urban schools play an important role in shaping the cities outside their walls. InThe 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 Campusshows 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. Through a close analysis of the history of higher education in Chicago,The City as Campusexplores how the university's missions of service, teaching, and research have metamorphosed over time, particularly in response to the unique opportunities-and restraints-the city provides. Illustrating how Chicago serves as a site of pedagogical transformation and a location for the larger purpose of the academic community,The City as Campuspresents a social and design history of the urban campus as an architectural idea and form.

Author Biography

Sharon Haar is associate professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
New Institutions for a New Environment: Pedagogical Space in the Progressive City	p. 1
City as Laboratory: Hull-House and the Rise of the Chicago School	p. 29
Modern City, Modern Campus: Institutional Expansion and Urban Renewal in the Postwar Era	p. 49
Classrooms off the Expressway: A New Mission for Higher Education	p. 69
ôModel of the Modern Urban Universityö: The New Spatial Form of the Chicago Circle Campus	p. 97
Campus Revolt: The Reform of the Commuter University	p. 133
City as Campus: University Space in the Global City	p. 149
Conclusion	p. 185
Notes	p. 203
Index	p. 233
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