Kenney, Daniel R.,

Mission and place : strengthening learning and community through campus design / Daniel R. Kenney, Ricardo Dumont, and Ginger S. Kenney. - x, 286 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. - ACE/Praeger series on higher education . - American Council on Education/Praeger series on higher education. .

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

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

"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.

0275981231 9780275981235

2004015964


Campus planning--United States
College environment--United States

LB3218.A1 / K46 2004

378.1962