A landscaping approach aimed at integrating greatly contrasting building types and materials resulting from unplanned growth used these elements to create design continuity; paving, planting, landscape furniture, planting and lawn protection, signs, lights, placement of posters and notices, and bicycle racks. (MSE)

Residential, commercial, and industrial shifts in urban and suburban areas have left many large, solidly built structures vacant. Such structures are often convertible to educational uses at a cost far below that of constructing an equivalent facility new. Explains how administrators can find and adapt such found space; provides some useful…

Rutgers has entered the development business by leasing land to the private sector for a term sufficient to generate investment interest, but short enough to guarantee the use of the land by future generations of the University. The developer selection process and the review and approval process are reported. (JMD)

A study of campus decentralization and the dispersal of facilities at 10 universities focused on institutional needs and strategies in campus growth and organization and on trends in this area. Individual institutional concerns and efforts are noted. (MSE)

Considerations in the planning and construction of overseas college campuses are discussed, and the process followed by Webster University (Missouri) in developing four European campuses is described. Special issues arising in the conversion of one location from leased facilities to an institution-owned site, including zoning and construction…