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Princeton Planning Campus Changes10-31-08 | News

Princeton Planning Campus Changes




This scale model of the 2016 Princeton University campus plan shows a number of projects on the drawing board for the 250+ year-old Ivy League school.
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Princeton University officials believe sustainability is key in plans to update a campus that has been around since the 1750s.

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Burstein said the plan deals with a series of problems and challenges on the campus: First, the approach from the south is not as attractive as it should be; second, the university is surrounded by housing and shops, and third, any expansion must be sensitive to the scale of nearby neighborhoods. In addition, like any university that has been around for more than 250 years, Princeton has a series of different architectural styles on the campus ?EUR??,,????'?????<

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It turns out that greening the campus offers some solutions for the campus plan ?EUR??,,????'?????<

Green spaces will also help with the aesthetics of the campus. Since the 1960s, many open spaces on the campus have been marred by surface parking lots. A solution in at least one area is to push that parking underground and cover it with playing fields and green space. Greenery also helps convey a sense that the campus is built to human scale ?EUR??,,????'?????<

Burstein said the university has set a goal of reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, and intends to do so without the use of offsets and other off-campus strategies. But at the current rate of growth the university?EUR??,,????'?????<

Sources: Chronicle of Higher Education, Princeton University

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