¶ University: New York City as a Vast University
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“… What is going on with the cities, all the physical has gone out, the metaphysical coming in-- it is not just exchanging of goods, as for instance, the mammoth stores beginning to deploy also, to get where there could be some good parking by going out of town to the new shopping centers, leaving a downtown hole. Into that center must come the educational centers. This is what is happening in New York City, for instance. New York City is becoming a vast university, where Columbia owns all of Radio City-- it owns much of that part of the real estate of New York. Then New York University owns all Washington Square and going south of that. We simply find New York tending to become a big dormitory University, though it has different names, this is it. And much of this University is not the enrolled student, but just the adult or even the young coming in to find out what it is all about, to have some experiences. There is no question about the major part of our education being something that occurs outside of the organized educational facilities.”
¶ Citations
- RBF Address THE HABITABLE CITY, 14 Oct. '69.
