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When City Parks Are Your Quad

Urban Campus Planning for Safety and Well-Being

Published July 3, 2024

By Joel Pettigrew, MA, Higher Education Administrator and Strategist

Planning Types: Campus Planning, Student Affairs Planning

Tags: Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Facilities Design, Landscape / Open Space, Mixed-Use, Original Research, SCUP Research Program, Security, Student Housing, Student Life / Student Affairs, Town and Gown, Urban Campus, Urban Design

Institutions referenced in this resource:
Duquesne University, City Colleges of Chicago-Richard J Daley College, McGill University-Montréal, Emerson College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgetown University

This is a SCUP Fellow Research Project Final Report. The SCUP Fellows program is designed to strengthen higher education leaders who seek to carry out new research that contributes to SCUP’s knowledge base of integrated planning. Learn more.

How can the campus best support student development in a safe, yet open environment? On an urban campus, these concerns are intensified: There is much more localized activity for students to engage with in their city environment, and many more stakeholders influence how the institution can assert itself in that environment.

In this 2022-2023 SCUP Fellow research report, Joel Pettigrew reflects on how campus edge dynamics and student sense of security play out at several urban campuses. Pettigrew weaves together his operational understanding of campus life with a design understanding of how planners and architects approach the campus to explore how these “two languages” inform student security and well-being, and notes in conclusion that there are many research threads yet to follow.

Author:

Joel Pettigrew, MA

Higher Education Administrator and Strategist
2022–2023 Fellow

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