This is the Georgia Institute of Technology. The school was founded in 1885 to bring higher education to the South. It was modeled after Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The school opened with just two buildings, one of which still stands, but by 1905 the campus had grown and President Theodore Roosevelt paid it a visit. Today Tech has grown to include 400 acres, about 12,000 undergrads, and 8,000 grads, and 4 campuses across the world. President Emeritus Wayne Clough who was president for most of my time there has moved onto become the Secretary of the Smithsonian, and President Peterson, formerly the chancellor of Boulder serves as Tech’s new president.
The campus is relatively urban. It is bounded by Downtown, Midtown, Midtown West, Homepark, and Atlantic Station. Like I said before, it is 400 acres. There are apartments and townhomes catering to students all around the campus, and many students such as myself have spent the last year or two living off campus in Midtown. Tech is surrounded by neighborhoods that are far denser than anything that we have in Jacksonville, but you can be on Tech's campus and not realize that you are in the center of a 6 million person metro. Unfortunately, many students are robbed, beaten, or held up at gunpoint when walking on campus at night (sometimes in the day)...a negative of being so close to downtown Atlanta.
Many students come from overseas or far away states, and so they do not have cars. Tech has 3 of its own bus systems (the Stinger); one connects Tech students with area grocery stores and points of interest off campus. Tech has a trolley system that connects students to the Midtown MARTA station. Tech and Emory have a joint bus system that connects the two universities (the two schools have many joint programs together). Finally, Tech has a late night shuttle service that allows students to safely traverse the surrounding area at night or to avoid drinking and driving. In other words, a car is not necessary at Tech. Zipcar also has a rent center on campus. I know plenty of people that use Zipcar or a bike-sharing system developed at Tech in conjunction with Emory.
In the early 2000s, Georgia Tech embarked on an ambitious plan to rebuild a seedy and rundown area of Midtown on 5th Street into a large, urban campus and research/office development. The area is now called Tech Square, more on this later.
A Few Interesting Facts Before We Begin
The Yellowjackets got their name because starting in the 1890s, the men of Georgia Tech wore yellow jackets to all the sporting events.
George P. Burdell is an imaginary alum who has attended every class at Tech over the years because various students have enrolled themselves under his name. He is Tech’s most famous alum who never existed.
In the early 1900s, John Heisman was Tech’s football coach (1904-1919, after which he moved up to Penn). In 1916, under Heisman’s coaching, the Tech football team defeated Cumberland 222-0, the largest margin of victory in college history. Cumberland’s net yardage was -28.
Georgia Tech’s rallying cry when we play UVA is 41-38. It’s a long tradition that takes too much time to explain, but is similar to Miami fans’ ‘Wide Right’ against FSU.
From 1940 to 1987, Georgia Tech had a mandatory class called ‘Downproofing’ which required students to learn how to float and swim with their legs and arms bound together. Students called it ‘Drowning 101.’
The first female to attend Tech arrived in 1952, but women could not officially enroll until 1968. The ANAK Society is a secret society that supposedly helped with integration of all minorities into Tech.
Due to the usual 65:35 men to women ratio, Tech has an acronym, TBS, which stands for Tech Bitch Syndrome. It’s said that women at Tech have the ability to choose whatever man they want to because of the ratio, and as a result they turn into snobs.
Every year Tech is ranked in the top 10 most stressful and most difficult universities in the country. Unfortunately a higher suicide rate and rampant alcoholism come with the territory.
Tech has 3 satellite campuses: outside of Paris, in Savannah, and in Singapore.
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Tech Square
I’ll start off with the side of campus I became very familiar with: Technology Square. This is where the business school at Tech is. Finished in 2003/2004 at an original cost of $200M, Tech Square has grown to become a mini hub of academic research, a venture capital hub, and a bustling commercial corridor.
In addition to the business school (which was my school), the GVU computer research center, the Advanced Technology Development Center (a multi billion dollar business incubator…the Palo Alto of the South if you will), VentureLab (the step before your company or innovation can be funded by and tied to the ATDC), and the Georgia Electronics Design Center. The Global Learning Center is here, too. It serves as a meeting/research building. Catherine Ross wrote MegaRegions here and Ellen Dunham Jones (professor at our college of architecture) partnered with faculty here to write Retrofitting Suburbia. Obama has recruited many of the research faculty here onto his team.
Stores include Barnes & Noble, the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center, Great Clips, a printing store, and tons of restaurants.
Companies include Centergy, RBC Centura Bank, and Accenture.
***Tech Square was one of the first LEED developments in the country (13th I think). It is currently rated LEED silver.
Looking across the 5th Street Bridge which was widened and renovated in 2007 to better connect the main campus with Tech Square. The bridge serves as a tailgate spot now, too.
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The following from WestinPeachtree at WikiMedia.
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My classroom building at night (a lobby area connecting the two sides). Notice the Chihuly glass sculptures hanging from the ceiling.
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Views from one of the Tech Square Parking Garages
View towards East/Central campus
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View towards Central/West campus
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View towards GA Dome. The white high rise on the left is about to be imploded and the site redeveloped.
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North Avenue Apartments, originally constructed by Tech as Olympic housing. Afterwards they were leased to Georgia State, and then in 2006 the lease ended and Tech renovated the buildings as housing for its own students. I lived there my sophomore year on the 9th floor of one of the far buildings. You want to talk about noise? Try living directly above that highway!
Now the buildings are LEED EB Gold certified (one of the first EB buildings). There are self powered piezo-electric nano sensors all over the building that measure environmental factors. Eventually Tech wants to make the buildings completely self-powered using appropriate wind and solar and nano power technologies developed at the school (like piezoelectric nano-devices).
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East Campus
East Campus is the old campus. Most of the buildings date from 1888 to 1921.
Most of the following pictures were taken 2 days after Christmas. The snow left over is from a white Christmas this year when 2-4 inches fell over the metro area. Because it is 2 days after Christmas, there aren’t many people around :)
As of 2009, the official Georgia Tech policy states that all new construction and all new renovations will be built to LEED Gold or higher. Our campus is expected to move onto Platinum in a few years (we already have a couple of platinum buildings not pictured). Our school energy and water consumption exceed CA state guidelines by at least 20% each. Georgia Tech is one of the greenest campuses in the world and consistently rates among the top few greenest campuses according to Princeton Review and Sierra Club and the NWF. Currently about 20-25% of all energy consumption comes from renewable sources ranging from geothermal to PV (solar) to piezo/nano electricity.
FYI, the largest Earth Day (more like week at Tech) in the south is at Tech.
Stephen P. Hall Building, 1924, now serves as the Navy ROTC Armory
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Holland Building, 1914
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Old Civil Engineering Building, 1939, LEED Gold Certified
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David Melville Smith Building, 1923, 1 of two buildings on campus donated by Carnegie
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Chapin Building, 1911
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John Saylor Coon Building, 1911
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Installed in the late 1890s, The Whistle has been stolen by students numerous times (tradition), it blows 5 minutes before each hour to adjourn classes
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Old Engineering, Science, and Mechanics Building
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Savant and Swann buildings, both 1901
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The Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, 1931, one of 7 buildings/schools donated by Daniel Guggenheim (the others at Caltech, MIT, NYU, Stanford, Univ. of WA, Michigan)
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The Rockefeller Building, 1912, now our Alumni House
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Coca-Cola World HQ, the current CEO is a Tech grad, and Tech grads basically fill half of the management/board positions, it’s no coincidence that Atlanta is the business hub of the south…there are several great universities to recruit from in the area, including two top ranked universities in the country (Tech and Emory)
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More North Ave Apartments, soon to be certified LEED EB Gold
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Construction of a new dining hall just for North Ave, will be LEED Gold
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Lettie Pate Whitehead Admin Building, AKA Tech Tower, 1887
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Tech Tower, Stealing the T is a Tech tradition, the last successful theft was in 2001, but the last recent attempt by a couple of Beta brothers ended poorly for them.
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Carnegie Building, 1907, LEED Silver registered (not yet certified)
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Lyman Hall (Old Chemistry Building), 1905
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Emerson Building, 1925
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French Building, 1898
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Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field, seats 55,000, continuously expanded since 1905
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Britain Hall, 1928, now serves as East Campus Dining Hall
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Various dorms, all built between 1915 and 1926.
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Towers, my freshman dorm
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Crum and Forster, 1928
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Old Academy of Medicine Auditorium, 1941, seats 250, undergoing a massive renovation right now, designed by famed architect Philip Schutze
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The following taken from Georgia Tech Conference Spaces (http://www.conference.gatech.edu/meetingSpaces_academy.cfm#academy), the chandelier is from Gone With the Wind.
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The following image taken from Wikipedia user, “carsonmc”, aka Jeff Clemmons
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View towards the O’Keefe Building, 1924, now houses Army ROTC
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Central Campus
Central Campus is undergoing a ton of construction right now. It’s virtually pointless and impossible to photograph it until all of the additions and changes are done.
Kessler Campanile, photo from Georgia Tech because it’s currently being redone right now.
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Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, LEED Gold, with the Kessler Campanile in the foreground (aka The Shaft), A giant underground cistern is being built so that every building on campus will trap rainwater and most, if not all, water on campus will be recycled. We have the largest cistern in the country on campus.
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Hinman Research Lab (1938) in foreground, LEED Silver or Gold renovation, with Library East wing in background
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Klaus Advanced Computing, aka Coliseum of Computing, LEED Gold, Perkins & Will architects
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Views toward Tech Square and Midtown and our baseball stadium (which is LEED Gold)
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Notice the 1s and 0s :)
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The following images are of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. Tech partners heavily with Emory Medical school here. The buildings include the UA Whitaker Building, the Ford Building, the Petit Building, the Molecular Science and Engineering Building, and the Fiber Optic Network Building. All are built to LEED Silver or Gold standards.
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Marcus Nanotechnology Building, LEED Gold standards, the largest nano/cleanroom lab at any university and one of the largest cleanroom spaces in the world
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Some ugly computer and engineering buildings
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West Campus
A newer part of campus developed from the 50s onward. Almost every building on this half of campus is built/renovated to at least LEED silver.
Love Manufacturing
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Typical GT bus station, routes are posted at each station, most of which are covered, the marquee lets students know exactly down to the millisecond how much longer they’ll wait for a bus.
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Health Services
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Campus Recreation Center, originally built as the Olympic Aquatic Center, Tech took it over and enclosed it and expanded it. The roof is covered in what once was the largest solar array in the world (340 kW) with PV panels developed at Tech by the GTResearch Institute. Tech is a world leader in solar technology and many of the world’s current largest solar companies were started at Tech. The structure is still the world’s largest suspended concrete structure, and the track is on the top level and provides great views of the skyline.
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West campus dorms
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Campus Challenge Course, LEED Gold
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Manufacturing Research Center
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Manufacturing Related Disciplines Complex
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Most buildings weren’t pictured as there are just too many. Tech also has its own research park nearby, but it’s hard to gain entry to that.
10th Street Entrance to Tech
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Our arena about to undergo a $45 million renovation
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President’s house
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Graduate living buildings
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Turner Broadcasting Headquarters
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Along the Howell Mill side of Tech
Our puny liberal arts college, the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
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Wingnuts is a late night staple
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Where students often get clothes for theme parties
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Our just off campus coffee shop, Emory has one too, Jacksonville needs something even half as good…had a coffee from there this morning actually
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Some Greek houses on campus. Greek life at Georgia Tech is huge, from traditional fraternities/sororities to business fraternities to Indian and Jewish fraternities to secret societies, almost 40% of the campus is Greek or in a social club.
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If anyone has any pictures from other universities, perhaps UF or FSU, those would be great! I think FSU is pretty urban, but Tally is pretty small. A lot of the universities not in Florida are very urban.
I don't have a number of images from any single university but here are a few from cities featured in the MJ Learning From series:
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MIQuoteThe University of Michigan shapes Ann Arbor's economy significantly, employing 30,000 workers, including 7,500 in the medical center.
Much of the campus is adjacent to and intermixed with downtown Ann Arbor. Because the campus and the city expanded side-by-side, there is often no firm divide between the two, with university buildings scattered through much of the city center.
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More images here: http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2009-sep-elements-of-urbanism-ann-arbor
Thanks for the great shots, Simms3. I grew up in Atlanta and used to hang out at Tech with my dad while he was working on his PhD. He was an undergraduate in the late 50s/early 60s and has great stories about those days. I'm going to send him a link to your post - he'll enjoy seeing the pics, including his old frat house (Delta Tau Delta).
One of my earliest memories is of playing a computer game that involved delivering pizza for Everybody's on a room sized mainframe down the hall from dad's office.
Here are some random shots of University of Florida, taken in 2008.
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Florida Southern College in Lakeland, FL. It's small but I'd consider it a good urban example of what EWC could follow.
QuoteFlorida Southern College (commonly referred to as Florida Southern or FSC) is a private college located in Lakeland, Florida. It was selected by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top ten Southern Comprehensive Colleges-Bachelors, and by The Princeton Review as a Best Southeastern College, a Best Value College, and included in the Best 366 Colleges: 2008, Florida Southern is the home of the world’s largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture.
History
The college was founded in Orlando in 1856, and moved to Leesburg in 1885 (some debate this to be the true establishment) under the sponsorship of the United Methodist Church and was open to both male and female students. It moved to Sutherland (now Palm Harbor) in 1901 and changed its name to Southern College. Due to fires in the early 1920s it was temporarily relocated to Clearwater Beach and then moved to Lakeland in 1922. In 1935 it was renamed Florida Southern College by the trustees.
The present campus comprises some 64 buildings on 100 acres of land and is the home of the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world. The campus itself is designated a National Historic District, due to the historic significance of its buildings.
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Jackets !(I'm an alum, my nephew is there now)
Great tour! I was at Tech from '99-'03...and I too lived in Towers my freshman year. How many is "many" in reference to the number of students robbed at gunpoint on campus? I was there for 4.5 years and don't remember it being that bad. Thanks again!
Missfixit: Thanks! I was a brother there, too. There are big plans for the house including a potential multi-million dollar renovation/addition that's been in the works for several years. When I was a sophomore, we had an alum who was about to commit $2M for the project, and unfortunately during a visit on Homecoming a recent alum was drunk and lobbed a yogurt through the air, which hit the donor in the head. Plans back on hold :( This summer I think the house will see a redo of the front yard, though.
billy: Awesome! What was your major and what is your nephew's major if you don't mind me asking?
blandman: Thanks! Eh, maybe I exaggerated by "a lot," but I have a few friends that lived a block off campus and were all robbed at gunpoint in their townhome. Even the dog was stolen. I'd say we get a Clery notice about once a month (maybe every 2-3 weeks) for armed robbery and maybe once every couple months for aggravated assault. Petty larceny happens all the time, as to be expected.
BTW, I was there for 4.5 years, too! Just graduated in December. I noticed you're in Philly. Are you from Jax? What did you study at Tech? You'd be shocked at how many students attend now. I think with undergrad and grad when I started, there might have been 15,000 students. Now there are about 20,000 with a future (hopefully) permanent cap at 22,000. I'm worried they are going to dilute the value of a Tech education. MIT has I think about 8-9,000 students total...Caltech even fewer.
Edit: On that note, when I lived at the North Ave Apts, which were gated and sealed, we still somehow had bums in the quads and premises all the time. I remember taking an elevator up to my place and a bum entered, and I am absolutely positive he had never been on an elevator. It freaked him out haha. He waited for the rest of us to push our floors before he pushed "6." It was pretty funny, but smelly.
There is an interesting take on an urban campus under construction in Chicago now. It would be great to see UNF or FSCJ do something like this in Downtown Jax.
Roosevelt Goes Vertical(http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/.a/6a00d834518cc969e20133f2ea8747970b-800wi)
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QuoteRoosevelt University has broken the ground on a 32-story academic building that will be the second tallest university building in the country and the sixth tallest in the world. A unique vertical campus, it will have classrooms, laboratories, offices, dorm rooms, a dining hall, fitness facilities and student services all under one roof. Roosevelt is not just constructing a building; it is creating a great university experience.
Basement
Space for physical resources
Space for textbook storage
Mechanical systems
First Floor
Two-story main lobby
Admissions office
Security desk
Bookstore entrance at the Fine Arts Annex
Seven elevators
Mezzanine
Financial aid
Student accounts
Advising
Portion of the registrar’s office
Academic Success Center
Second Floor
Dining center with 313 seats; open to students and faculty and staff members
Bridge connecting the dining center with the Fainman Lounge in the Auditorium Building (the bridge and another connection to Auditorium Building will make this floor a campus crossroads)
Catering services
Third Floor
Large multipurpose room for lectures, movies, concerts
Career-services offices
Offices for student activities and student organizations
TV lounge
Fourth Floor
Conference area for 100 people with large, medium, and small conference rooms
Catering services
Rehearsal space for the Auditorium Theatre
Fifth Floor
Recreation center open to students and faculty and staff members with weights and cardiovascular equipment
Two multipurpose rooms for exercise, yoga, and martial arts
Locker rooms
Sixth Floor
Large classrooms holding 96 and 108 students
Two smaller classrooms
Conference room
Seventh Floor
Chemistry floor with two teaching labs and one research lab
Faculty offices
Eighth Floor
Biology floor, with three teaching labs, student-research lab, and conference room
Departmental offices
Ninth Floor
Biology-research lab
Faculty offices
Physics teaching lab
78-student classroom
Conference room
10th Floor
Four general classrooms
Learning laboratory
Small rooms for breakout meetings
11th Floor
24 private offices for the College of Business Administration
One tiered and one regular classroom
12th Floor
Offices for the business dean and assistant deans
Learning-lab trading floor
Classrooms
Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate
13th Floor
Offices for the president, provost, and CFO and their staffs
Two conference rooms
14th Floor
Transfer floor to student housing
Security desk
Resident-life offices
Program room for meetings
Three elevators that go up to residential floors; four elevators that go down, serving the rest of the building
15th Floor
Laundry room
TV Room
16th to 31st Floors
Hhousing for more than 600 students (double and single suites)
Rooms for residence assistants
Student lounges facing east, toward Lake Michigan
Another well known urban campus is the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Below are a handful of internet pix followed, unless otherwise noted, by a sampling of pictures and building description's (they have hundreds of buildings) derived from the University's virtual tour on their web site. They state the current urban campus amounts to about 280 acres (I believe with the recent "Penn Connect" additions [see map notation below] they may actually be over 300 acres). From visiting, I find it is unusual for its compactness and containment of all it's graduate and undergraduate schools on one campus. Also, it has quite a diversity of architectural styles spanning nearly 150 years (this is not the original campus being that its founding was 1740) woven into the campus. Penn considers itself a leader in integrating itself with the City and West Philadelphia neighborhood surrounding its perimeter, providing social, medical, and educational resources to low income areas.
With respect to downtown Jacksonville, I have noted before, it needs a residential university in its midst and our city "planners" could learn much from university campus designs about the co-existence of mixed use facilities and catering to pedestrians and bicyclists. Any campus today can not afford to fail in this regard and be successful at attracting students. I would think the same applies to urban environments. I suggest the Chamber consider visiting a variety of urban campuses in major and mid-sized cities to see how to get a lot of use from a compact area. Note also, other than maybe a campus bus system, universities generally have tens of thousands of people moving about within significantly sized campuses (relative to our core downtown) area without the benefit of mass transit modes such as elaborate "people movers" or other rail based systems.
Descriptions posted apply to pictures above.
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Campus map of Penn campus highlighting medical school facilities. Note juxtaposition with adjacent Drexel University, 30th Street Station, the Schuylkill River, and Downtown Philadelphia. The area from 30th Street Station to behind Franklin Field (the football stadium) to South Street along the Schuylkill River is undergoing a multibillion dollar conversion from industrial use to multiuse. More on this urban renewal project and its buildings & park spaces can be found at Penn Connect, the name given due to its "connecting" the campus to the center of the city: http://www.pennconnects.upenn.edu/
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Campus statue of Ben Franklin, founder of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Richards Medical Building designed by Louis I. Kahn:
"It was the Richards Medical Building (1957-61) on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that was a true breakthrough for Kahn in the form of critical acclaim in and outside of the architectural sphere. Some of the major themes that characterized Kahn’s work were evident in our guided tour: heavy external massing that clearly demarcated “served†and “servant†spaces, rigid geometrical structural systems, refinement of exposed materials, and the dissolution of the corner. Kahn’s use of concrete cantilever technology in the medical labs allowed for the creation of a space that did not depend on structural support at the corner, hence the ability to leave large expanses of glass meeting at a point on the far end of the lab." ( http://sahstudytours.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/louis-i-kahn-study-tour-institutional-work-photos-and-text-by-amber-wiley/ )
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"Hill College House is one of the largest college houses (undergraduate dormitories) at the University of Pennsylvania. Hill was designed in 1958 by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, who also designed the St. Louis Arch, the former TWA Flight Center at New York City's Kennedy Airport, and Dulles Airport. The building was unusual for its time, incorporating an interior atrium. Once a women's dormitory, Hill is now co-ed. In common with other buildings constructed at the height of the Cold War, the basement of Hill contains a fallout shelter, which links to the University's utility tunnels." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_College_House )
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Franklin Field is the oldest two-tiered stadium in the country with a seating capacity of approximately 52,000. The Penn Relays, the oldest organized relay competition in the United States (it began in 1895), is held every year in April. The Relays bring together the best track and field athletes from high schools and colleges worldwide. Parents may remember when the field was the home of the Army-Navy football game and the Philadelphia Eagles. The first televised football game was also played here in 1940.
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The Palestra, which seats 9,000, was the site of the first NCAA championship in 1939. This legendary sports arena was opened in 1927 and has hosted more games, visiting teams, and NCAA tournaments than any other college facility in the country. In addition to more than sixty years of Penn basketball and thirty years of Big Five doubleheaders, the building has seen fifty NCAA tournament games as part of nineteen national championship competitions.
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University hotel adjacent to Penn's archaeological museum, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania complex, and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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College Hall, completed in 1873, was the first building constructed on the University's present site. It once housed all functions of the University and now contains the offices of the President, Provost, and Undergraduate Admissions, as well as classrooms. College Hall is also home to the Philomathean Society, a student organization founded in 1813.
You may have seen a version of College Hall without being aware of it. When Lurch the butler answers the door at the home of Morticia and Gomez Addams, it is College Hall that you see. Cartoonist and Penn alumnus Charles Addams is said to have used the building as his inspiration for the mansion of the Addams Family.
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The Green is the center of campus and most students pass through it several times a day. In spring and fall, students use the lawns for reading, studying, or just catching some rays. John J. Boyle's statue of Benjamin Franklin marks the center of The Green.
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Irvine Auditorium is the location for many Penn ceremonies, speaking engagements, movies, and concerts. The balcony houses the eleventh-largest pipe organ in the world, the Curtis Organ, which was built for the Sesquicentennial Exhibition in 1926, and donated to the University in 1928. Each Halloween, the silent movie, The Phantom of the Opera, is shown in Irvine, complete with organ accompaniment.
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Penn has fifteen libraries, located throughout the campus, housing a collection of over 4.5 million volumes. The newly renovated Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center holds the main social sciences and humanities collections, the Lippincott Library of the Wharton School, Penn's rare books and manuscript collections, two computer labs, and the Goldstein Undergraduate Center in the Rosengarten Reserve Room, which is open for study all night during the fall and spring semesters. There are lounges, study carrels, group study and seminar rooms, and over 150 public computers for student use in the Center.
Penn's original library, from the Victorian house of Charles Henry Lea, is installed on the sixth floor, where an adjacent exhibition gallery is lined with woodwork from a 15th-century house in Chester, England.
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Houston Hall was the country's first student union, and it remains in service to students to this day. The lower level is a campus eatery, offering many varieties of food, retail shops, and a game room. The Hall of Flags is available for evening events. The first floor houses the University's information center, a cafe, music room and a large study lounge. The upper floors contain performance spaces, meeting rooms and offices for student organizations.
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Claudia Cohen Hall, formally known as Logan Hall, is home to the College at Penn. Built in the Victorian Gothic style, it is one of three original buildings erected on Penn's current site. It was the second building constructed by the University on its West Philadelphia campus.
Completed in 1874, its original purpose was to house the Medical School. First known as Medical Hall, it was renamed Logan Hall in 1906 to honor James Logan, a founding trustee of the College of Philadelphia, Penn's predecessor. It was renamed Claudia Cohen Hall in 2008 in honor of journalist and Penn alumna Claudia Cohen.
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Fisher Fine Arts Library, originally the University library, was rechristened the Furness Building when the University's main collection moved to the new Van Pelt Library and the old building was turned over to the Graduate School of Fine Arts. It was renamed again to honor the generosity of Anne and Jerome Fisher in 1991.
Designed by Frank Furness, the renowned Philadelphia architect, it was completed in 1891. This work was a breakthrough for modern architecture and an important step in the evolution of library design. Furness designed this innovative structure to be the first library with a specialized reading room, lit by skylights and clerestory windows, and a detached book "stack," specifically designed for the fireproof storage of books.
For much of the twentieth century, the Furness building was harshly criticized for its rebellious, unconventional style, a response that led to the later neglect and destruction of many of Furness' other buildings. The Fisher Fine Arts Library is considered by some to be the quietest place on campus to study. Its most recent claim to fame: a scene from the movie Philadelphia was filmed here.
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The Roy and Diana Vagelos Laboratories provide Penn with 102,000 square feet of new facilities for cutting-edge research in bioengineering, chemistry, chemical engineering, and medicine.
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Established in 1887, the University Museum was the first anthropological museum on any American university campus and is one of the most renowned anthropology museums in the world. Known for its studies of ancient societies, the museum houses one of the largest archaeological and anthropological collections in the United States. A library, research facilities, and ongoing publishing projects are all centers of activity. The collections are exceptionally rich in Chinese, Near Eastern, Greek, African, Pacific, Egyptian, and South American artifacts.
The great Chinese Rotunda was added in 1912-1915, the Coxe Wing (housing the Egyptian collections) went up in 1926, and the Sharpe wing--designed to be the front door of the museum--was completed in 1929. The later work was designed by Charles Klauder, Day's former partner. The museum's large academic wing, accommodating the library and classrooms and offices for the anthropology department, was constructed in 1968-71 according to a design by Romaldo Giurgola and Ehrman Mitchell. The latest addition, the Mainwaring wing, is the work of Atkin, Olshin, Lawson-Bell and Associates.
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The Towne Building, which is the main building of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, was built in 1903-06. Next to the Towne Building is the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, established in 1923. Between 1943-1946, ENIAC (Electrical Numeric Integrator and Computer), the world's first all-electronic, large scale, digital computer was created here.
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The Law School moved into this impressive Georgian-style building by Cope and Stewardson in 1900, 110 years after America's first law lectures were delivered at Penn by James Wilson, a constitutional scholar whose work laid the foundation for the American system of jurisprudence. Penn Law today is known for its innovative cross-disciplinary approach to legal education.
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Completed in 1990-91, the Institute of Contemporary Art building has soaring two-story galleries, an educational center and a garden terrace.
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The University Bookstore with 130,000 titles including approximately 90,000 academic books, making it one of the most comprehensive academic bookstores in the country.
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The Arts, Research and Culture House (ARCH) houses the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, and also serves as home for a number of ethnic heritage groups.
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The Annenberg School for Communication
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The Annenberg Center is a performing arts center with three theaters.
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The Pottruck Health & Fitness Center is a new multi-purpose activity area designed for campus sport totalling 115,000 square feet.
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The McNeil Building is home to the Economics and Sociology Departments, as well as the university's Career Services office.
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Quadrangle: The earliest buildings in the Quad were constructed in the 1890's. Today, the Quad encompasses 38 interlocking buildings surrounding five interior courtyards. Three of Penn's twelve College Houses call the Quad home.
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The Leidy Laboratory, a Cope and Stewardson building, stands on Hamilton Walk and was built in 1910-11. Behind Leidy stands the Kaplan Wing, built in two phases: 1959-1960 and 1963-64. Behind the Kaplan wing is the Seely Mudd biological Research Laboratory, built 1984-86. The Bio Pond, located behind these facilities, provides a taste of nature on campus and a popular spot to relax or study on sunny days.
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The Wharton School, the oldest collegiate school of business in the country, celebrated the 125th anniversary of its foundation in 2006. Part of the 100th anniversary commemoration was the complete renovation of Dietrich Hall and the new Steinberg Hall, which fills the forecourt of the older building.
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In August 2002, the Wharton School opened a new $139.9 million, 327,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art academic center. Jon M. Huntsman Hall is one of the world's most advanced facilities for management education. It houses the Wharton Undergraduate and Graduate Divisions, as well as the Marketing, Legal Studies, Statistics, and Operations and Information Management Departments. The building is open 24 hours per day.
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Graciously endowed by alumnus Paul Kelly, the Writers House serves as a place where all Penn writers can come for courses, readings, informal meetings, and writing advice.
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Located in a mid-nineteenth-century building in Hamilton Village, Civic House is the campus hub for student community service activity.
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This 70,000-square-foot facility, opened in 2002 during the school's 125th Anniversary celebration, is the new gateway to Penn's School of Dental Medicine, tying together the School's historic Thomas W. Evans Building (built in 1915) and its Leon Levy Center for Oral Health Research.