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Urban Design

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Campus Image and Identity

 The eight chapters in this book reflect Richard Dober’s categories of the elements of campus image and design. Within each chapter, each page displays two campus scenes, chosen for thought-provoking comparison—and a brief comment from Dober regarding each.
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Campus Planning

 This classic by Richard P. Dober, which thoroughly reviews the fundamentals of campus planning, was first printed in 1963.
Conference Presentations

Connection Hubs

 We will look at examples of connection hubs and discuss how they are designed, their benefits, and how their impact is measured.
Conference Recordings

Promoting Just and Resilient Urban Communities Through Integrated Planning

 In this session, we'll discuss how urban institutions are serving essential roles in their cities by addressing inequities in education, economic opportunities, and health.
Conference Presentations

Reimagining Safe and Affordable Student Housing for a Dense Urban Campus
Conference Presentations

Revitalization at Harvard’s Center

 Come learn how we successfully navigated stakeholder outreach and generated a campus center design solution within the existing building.
Conference Presentations

Stanford’s Main Quad

 This presentation will address how a strong campus identity can create community engagement, facilitate discourse, and influence pedagogy through architecture that recalls the past, is relevant to the present, and can adapt to the future.
Conference Presentations

Transforming Streets into Bustling Places for Campus Life

 Many institutions are rethinking the presence of vehicles on campus and facing a need for more sustainable and multi-purpose circulation spaces.
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When City Parks Are Your Quad

 This is a SCUP Fellow Research Project Final Report for the 2022–2023 program. This report explores how the urban campus can best support student development in a safe, yet open environment.
Conference Presentations

When City Parks Are Your Quad: Urban Campus Planning for Safety and Wellbeing