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Tables of Contents for University Architecture
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
vi
Introduction
vii
Part One: The campus
Academic mission and campus planning
2
20
Defining a university: the challenge of design
2
5
Types of masterplan
7
6
The effect of time
13
8
Notes
21
1
Masterplans or development frameworks
22
12
Picturesque enclosure versus rational planning
34
7
The British campus in the twentieth century: the struggle for identity
37
3
Notes
40
1
Practical problems
41
22
Circulation
41
5
Defining the centre
46
1
Skyline
47
3
Defining the edge
50
1
Establishing the footprint of key buildings
51
2
Computing on campus
53
1
Landscape design
54
3
Environmentalism on the campus
57
1
The problem of the inner-city campus
58
2
Funding and implementation
60
2
Note
62
1
Sustainable development and the campus
63
6
The economic impact of universities
65
3
Notes
68
1
Crime, politics and the university campus
69
9
Crime on campus
69
2
Managing crime prevention
71
1
Birmingham University: a case study of crime prevention
72
2
The campus as political protest
74
1
Notes
75
3
Part Two: Buildings
Libraries and learning resource centres
78
17
The components of the library
80
2
Growth and change
82
1
Space standards
83
2
Technical factors
85
9
Notes
94
1
Laboratories and research buildings
95
14
Detailed design of laboratories
101
7
Notes
108
1
Special functions: special forms
109
10
Sports halls and physical recreation
109
3
Lecture theatres
112
4
Medical schools
116
2
Note
118
1
Art, design and music departments
119
6
Notes
124
1
General teaching space
125
8
Flexibility through building design
125
7
Notes
132
1
Student housing
133
17
Housing types
136
3
Funding and flexibility
139
2
Detail design
141
6
Notes
147
3
Part Three: Conclusions
Why does the university campus matter?
150
9
Design ideals and innovative technologies
150
1
The campus as a work of art
151
1
The evolution of building types
152
1
Experiments in sustainable design
152
2
Building bridges with the community
154
1
New growth, fresh paradigm
154
2
The campus of the Future
156
3
Bibliography
159
1
Illustration acknowledgements
160
1
Index
161