The Power of the Plan: Building a University in Historic Columbia, South Carolina
Language: English
Published by University of South Carolina Press, 2019
Series: Book 19 of 21 - Non
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- Title
- The Power of the Plan: Building a University in Historic Columbia, South Carolina
- Author
- Galehouse, Richard F.
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 161117970X
- ISBN 13
- 9781611179705
- Series
- Book 19 of 21: Non
Richard F. Galehouse has been involved in the university's master planning work for more than twenty-five years, making him more than qualified to take a lapidary look not only at the present and unfolding plans for the university, but also at the historic path that has brought it to its current luster. Encompassing its earliest days as Columbia College in 1801 (almost two decades before Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia); the devastating effects of the Civil War; the ""crisis years"" between 1861 and 1915, when the institution was closed twice and reorganized five times; and some bungled urban planning in the 1950s and 60s, Galehouse's candid examination details the growth of the university and speaks hopefully about its present and its future.
The city of Columbia and the University of South Carolina are unique in how they were designed to grow together, yet cosmopolitan in how they grapple collectively with the challenges and difficulties of combining the city's needs with the university's to create a symbiotic but nevertheless holistic community. The plan for this meeting of minds and needs is the meat of this narrative. The original and iconic ""Horseshoe grid"" of the city is echoed in the ""Innovista"" master plan outlined here, which will create in the city a shining setting for the university, one of its own most highly prized treasures.
A foreword is provided by Patrick L. Phillips, global chief executive officer of the Urban Land Institute (2009-2018) and an instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Executive Education Program and at the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University.
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