American Places: In Search of the Twenty-first Century CampusPraeger Publishers, 2006 - 224 páginas For the college campus, "place" means much more than just geography and physical setting. It is the sum of the experiences, activities, events, and memories that occur within the campus. American institutions of higher education are giving renewed attention to the question of how the quality and character of place can support the endeavors of the institutions. In doing so, campus communities are seeking to reclaim ground that was lost in the decades after World War II, when the traditional virtues of campus coherence, human scale, and place distinction were overtaken by explosive growth in attendance rates and the growing prevalence of automobiles. American Places calls for campuses to be conceived, not only to heighten the quality of the learning experience, but also as working demonstrations of how places everywhere can be transformed into more healthy, humane, civic environments. As campuses and communities are reshaped by societal forces, the campus will endure as a vital civil learning environment well into the 21st century. American Places calls for campuses to be designed, not only to heighten the quality of the learning experience, but also as working demonstrations of ways in which places everywhere can be transformed into more healthy, humane, civic environments. For the college campus, "place" should mean much more than geography and physical setting. It represents the sum of the experiences, activities, events, and memories that occur within the campus boundaries. Today, American institutions of higher education are devoting renewed attention to the question of how the quality and character of place can support their goals. In doing so, campus communities are seeking to reclaim psychological ground that was lost in the decades after World War II, when the traditional virtues of campus coherence, human scale, and place distinction were overtaken by explosive growth in attendance and the growing prevalence of automobiles. The quest to make better places of college campuses has a critical pract |
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... architecture had a magnetic appeal during that period with its genteel scale , refined detailing , and use of iconic towers and spires that gave campuses an appealing collegiate identity . More than architectural style , however , the ...
... architecture had a magnetic appeal during that period with its genteel scale , refined detailing , and use of iconic towers and spires that gave campuses an appealing collegiate identity . More than architectural style , however , the ...
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... architecture on U.S. campuses was sudden . The International Style of architecture , which had surfaced amid contro- versy in 1930s America , became a design benchmark in the 1940s , 1950s , and 1960s . With its crisp , cubist forms ...
... architecture on U.S. campuses was sudden . The International Style of architecture , which had surfaced amid contro- versy in 1930s America , became a design benchmark in the 1940s , 1950s , and 1960s . With its crisp , cubist forms ...
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... architecture had , somewhere , lost its way . purpose Interestingly , the genesis of postmodernism was attributed to ... architecture that he produced from the 1960s on . Neil Levine , in an essay appearing in American Architectural ...
... architecture had , somewhere , lost its way . purpose Interestingly , the genesis of postmodernism was attributed to ... architecture that he produced from the 1960s on . Neil Levine , in an essay appearing in American Architectural ...
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Part One A Brief History of the American Campus | 1 |
Part Two The Seismic Forces Affecting the Shape of | 53 |
three The Synergy of Real Space and Cyberspace 57 བཀ | 77 |
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