The City as Campus: Urbanism and Higher Education in Chicago

by Sharon Haar

We are witnessing an explosion of universities and campuses nationwide, and urban schools play an important role in shaping the cities outside their walls. In The 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 Campus shows the strain of this integration,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816665648
• ISBN13: 9780816665648
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 10.1"