Campus–City Relations: Past, Present, and Future

Heijer, Alexandra den; Magdaniel, F.T.J. Curvelo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-75593-9_13

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“…This study empirically investigates two types of university campus located in two Dutch cities. Both Amsterdam and Utrecht are located in the Randstad region of the Netherlands and feature the two campus types that are the subject of this research: the ‘dependent urban fabric’ campus, which we call inner-city campus, and the ‘autonomous urban fabric’ campus, referred to here as science parks (SP) [ 74 , 75 , 76 ]. Both cities (Amsterdam and Utrecht) and their campuses are similar in terms of how they were developed and implemented.…”

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“…The inner-city campus is characterized by faculty buildings that have grown together spatially with the city, as a mix of ‘town and gown’. They are ensembles of buildings of different styles and ages that coalesced to form a mutual spatial-economic relationship with the host city [ 76 , 79 ]. There is no clear demarcation in the form of a campus masterplan, but rather a sum of independent buildings located in geographic proximity [ 75 , 80 ].…”

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Public Spaces as Knowledgescapes: Understanding the Relationship between the Built Environment and Creative Encounters at Dutch University Campuses and Science Parks

Soares

Weitkamp

Yamu

2020

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The success of university campuses depends on the interrelations between creative encounters and the built environment, conceptualised here as spatial affordances for creativity. Such an interface plays a fundamental role in interactions for knowledge sharing and the exchange of ideas on campus. Due to campus public spaces generally being considered as the leftovers between buildings and classrooms, undermanaged, and overlooked, little is known about the extent to which this built environment enables or inhibits creative encounters in such spaces. The inner-city campuses and science parks (SPs) of Amsterdam and Utrecht, the case-studies of this research, differ in terms of their location relative to the city, their masterplan typologies and the arrangement of buildings. However, they are similar in terms of the aforementioned issues of public spaces. The novelty of this research is the attempt to overcome such issues using an innovative mixed-methods approach that tests the ‘spatial affordances for creativity’ with empirical data collection and analysis. This raises the importance of mapping, quantifying and analysing the spatial distribution of momentary perceptions, experiences, and feelings of people with methods such as volunteered geographic information (VGI). The results show that proximity between multiple urban functions and physical features, such as parks, cafés and urban seating are important when it comes to explaining the high frequency of creative encounters between people. Urban designers of campuses can use the applied method as a tool to plan and design attractive public spaces that provide creativity through the transfer of tacit knowledge, social well-being, positive momentary perceptions, sense of community, and a sense of place.

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Public Spaces as Knowledgescapes: Understanding the Relationship between the Built Environment and Creative Encounters at Dutch University Campuses and Science Parks

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Weitkamp

Yamu

2020

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“…Different historical trajectories and contemporary circumstances have produced disparate cross‐cultural outcomes. At the same time, there is an identifiable convergence around particular urban forms (den Heijer & Curvelo Magdaniel, 2018; Hassell, 2014; Larkham, 2000). Anti‐urbanism and, notably from the late 20th century, suburbanism have defined the institutional history of many universities.…”

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The making of a city campus

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Pullan

Saniga

2020

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Campus spatial development has attracted relatively little scholarly research, yet through time major moves reflect and interact with broader policy, design, and societal trends. The city campus as a high‐density, mixed‐use knowledge precinct has emerged as a distinctive type. Its growing prominence points to the convergence of interdependent trends in urban life, higher education, and economic growth. This article describes, contextualises, and reflects upon the physical evolution of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in central Sydney. The narrative identifies several distinct development phases: from the urban renewal of a rundown inner‐city precinct through comprehensive replanning following the tenets of high modernism, then adaptive reuse and heritage conservation, to architectural design excellence. In the process, it has become an Australian exemplar of a “tech transformed” contemporary city campus.

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“…Empirical research in campus planning and design that deals with the interrelations between creativity and the built environment have been carried out from the city-wide scale to the building scale. From the citywide perspective, studies have investigated the spatial relationship and accessibility between cities and university campuses [12][13][14]. The masterplan design of campuses has been approached as entailing functional and visual units [7,15], and for the building scale, the relationships between the physical features of office spaces and people's contact to share tacit knowledge have been investigated [16][17][18].…”

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The Relationship between the Spatial Configuration and the Fourth Sustainable Dimension Creativity in University Campuses: The Case Study of Zernike Campus, Groningen, The Netherlands

2020

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To date, little is known about the spatial aspects of the creativity of university campuses and their public spaces. This study recognises that creativity is the fourth sustainability, because the spatial configuration of campuses and city-university accessibilities are ‘creative solutions’ conceived for human needs. At the same time, creative ideas depend on interactions between individuals and the built environment. Therefore, based on the theoretical framework of the scholars who have explored the spatial aspects of creativity, this study empirically investigates Zernike Campus, Groningen, and its public spaces using a mixed-methods approach that involves (1) a space syntax analysis of the campus’s spatial configuration, (2) volunteered geographic information (VGI) of the users’ perceptions, and (3) non-participatory observations of the interactions between people and the built environment in public spaces with high and low ‘potential for creativity’. The results show that creativity cannot be explained simply by analysing spatial configurations, but that it also depends on the combination of the land-use mix, physical features, positive experiences, and perceptions of a sense of place which enable trust and interactions, and which facilitate creative encounters. Therefore, the mixed-methods approach applied here can help urban planners and designers to address public spaces more effectively, integrating conditions that support creativity.

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Campus–City Relations: Past, Present, and Future

Cited by 28 publications

References 17 publications

Public Spaces as Knowledgescapes: Understanding the Relationship between the Built Environment and Creative Encounters at Dutch University Campuses and Science Parks

Public Spaces as Knowledgescapes: Understanding the Relationship between the Built Environment and Creative Encounters at Dutch University Campuses and Science Parks

The making of a city campus

The Relationship between the Spatial Configuration and the Fourth Sustainable Dimension Creativity in University Campuses: The Case Study of Zernike Campus, Groningen, The Netherlands

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