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University as a Marketplace

Opening context:
Community of 7000

Conflict

Concentrated, cloistered universities, with closed administration policies and rigid procedures which dictate who may teach a course, kill opportunities for learning.

Resolution

Establish the university as a Marketplace of higher education. As a social conception this means that the university is open to people of all ages, on a full-time, part-time, or course by course basis. Anyone can offer a class. Anyone can take a class. Physically, the university marketplace has a central crossroads where its main buildings and offices are, and the meeting rooms and labs ripple out from this crossroads — at first concentrated in small buildings along pedestrian streets and then gradually becoming more dispersed and mixed with the town.

Closing context:
Promenade, Building Complex, Pedestrian Street, Housing In Between, Master and Apprentices