From Campus Landscapes to Knowledge Quarters: How Learning Returned to Its Urban Roots

Abstract

Two things are clear from the abundant literature on the design of universities. Firstly, it is rash to generalise. The world’s regions operate on differing trajectories. Their universities vary enormously in size, shape and content. Each has its own narrative and geographical context. They are individuals. But, secondly, they are also historical actors, susceptible to social trends and the cultural Zeitgeist. University architecture embodies historical change. Nowhere is this more evident than in the relationship between town and gown, campus and city.1 Historically, the nexus between