| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
International Studies in Higher Education |
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International studies in higher education.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Series Editors' Introduction; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; Part I Space at Work; 1 Space, Place and University Effectiveness; 2 Performing University Space: Multiplicity, Relationality, Affect; 3 Examining New Processes for Learning Space Design; 4 Managing the Campus: Facility Management and Design, the Student Experience and University Effectiveness; 5 Reading Campus Landscapes; 6 Sustainable Development: Impacts on Space and Place in Higher Education |
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7 Place-Making and Other Purposes: Public Art on CampusPart II Space and Place in Context; 8 The Idea of a University and its Concrete Form; 9 Science-Driven University Development in the United States; 10 'Let's Go for the Chicken-Drum': The Everyday Production of Social Space in a Chinese University; 11 The University and the City: Social Science Centre, Lincoln -- Forming the Urban Revolution; 12 Decoding University Ideals by Reading Campuses: Exploring Beyond the Democratic Mass University; Index |
| Summary |
The great universities of the world are to a large extent defined in the public imagination by their physical form: when people think of a university, they usually think of a distinctive place, rather than about say the teaching or the research that might go on there. This is understandable, both because universities usually stay rooted to the same spot over the centuries; and because their physical forms may send powerful messages about the kind of places they are. The physical form of the university, and how the spaces within it become transformed by their users into places w |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
College campuses.
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College buildings.
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Space (Architecture)
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School sites.
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campuses.
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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College buildings
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College campuses
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School sites
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Space (Architecture)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Temple, Paul, 1952- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317802525 |
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1317802527 |
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9781315813776 |
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1315813777 |
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