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A social and design history of the urban campus.

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"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



Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. New Institutions for a New Environment: Pedagogical Space in the Progressive City
2. City as Laboratory: Hull-House and the Rise of the Chicago School
3. Modern City, Modern Campus: Institutional Expansion and Urban Renewal in the Post-War Era
4. Classrooms off the Expressway: A New Mission for Higher Education
5. "Model of the Modern Urban University": The New Spatial Form of the Chicago Circle Campus
6. Campus Revolt: The Reform of the Commuter University
7. City as Campus: University Space in the Global City
Conclusion
Notes
Index

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 09/02/2011
      ISBN13: 9780816665655, 978-0816665655
      ISBN10: 0816665656
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A social and design history of the urban campus.

      Trade Review

      "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



      Table of Contents
      Contents
      Acknowledgments
      List of Abbreviations
      Introduction
      1. New Institutions for a New Environment: Pedagogical Space in the Progressive City
      2. City as Laboratory: Hull-House and the Rise of the Chicago School
      3. Modern City, Modern Campus: Institutional Expansion and Urban Renewal in the Post-War Era
      4. Classrooms off the Expressway: A New Mission for Higher Education
      5. "Model of the Modern Urban University": The New Spatial Form of the Chicago Circle Campus
      6. Campus Revolt: The Reform of the Commuter University
      7. City as Campus: University Space in the Global City
      Conclusion
      Notes
      Index

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