Haar, Sharon, 1962-

The city as campus urbanism and higher education in Chicago / [electronic resource] : Urbanism and higher education in Chicago Sharon Haar. - Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, 2011. - xxx, 245 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Community and college--Illinois--Chicago.
Universities and colleges--Illinois--Chicago.
Architecture and society--Illinois--Chicago.


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LC238.3.C46 / H33 2011eb

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