Title: The city as campus : urbanism and higher education in Chicago /
Authors: Haar, Sharon, 1962-
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Community and college Illinois Chicago.; Universities and colleges Illinois Chicago.; Architecture and society Illinois Chicago.
Contents: 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.