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Mission and place : strengthening learning and community through campus design / Daniel R. Kenney, Ricardo Dumont, and Ginger S. Kenney.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: American Council on Education/Praeger series on higher educationPublisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2004Description: x, 286 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0275981231
  • 9780275981235
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.1962 22
LOC classification:
  • LB3218.A1 K46 2004
Contents:
1. Meeting today's challenges -- 2. A changing context -- 3. Linking an institution's mission and its place -- 4. The learning campus-enhancing student learning and engagement -- 5. Community on campus -- 6. Neighborhood and urban community -- 7. Meaningful places -- 8. The plan expresses the big idea -- 9. Creating interaction through density -- 10. A mixture of campus uses -- 11. Landscape -- 12. Environment and sustainability -- 13. Taming the automobile -- 14. Architecture -- 15. Technology, learning, and place -- 16. Creating a vital neighborhood -- 17. Making it happen.
Review: "This book will help institutional leaders and the planners and designers who work with them to leverage one of the most powerful resources they have to change the formidable challenges they face into resounding opportunities: the campus and its environs - what we refer to as place - and the act of making physical decisions about these - placemaking."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 378.1962 KEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A414725B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-277) and index.

1. Meeting today's challenges -- 2. A changing context -- 3. Linking an institution's mission and its place -- 4. The learning campus-enhancing student learning and engagement -- 5. Community on campus -- 6. Neighborhood and urban community -- 7. Meaningful places -- 8. The plan expresses the big idea -- 9. Creating interaction through density -- 10. A mixture of campus uses -- 11. Landscape -- 12. Environment and sustainability -- 13. Taming the automobile -- 14. Architecture -- 15. Technology, learning, and place -- 16. Creating a vital neighborhood -- 17. Making it happen.

"This book will help institutional leaders and the planners and designers who work with them to leverage one of the most powerful resources they have to change the formidable challenges they face into resounding opportunities: the campus and its environs - what we refer to as place - and the act of making physical decisions about these - placemaking."--BOOK JACKET.

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