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Originally Posted by photoLith
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I thought SLU was all anti urban and trying to create a suburban campus downtown or some crap like that. Im confused then, are they trying to create a suburban campus or enhance the city and make it more urban?
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SLU's main campus is in Midtown, while the law school is moving downtown. no, they're not intentionally anti-urban (although they have indeed pitched the pastoralness of their campus in at least one commercial that i've seen). as Arch City mentioned in another thread, SLU is an institution working to ensure its future growth and success, and part of that is trying to lure suburban prospectives. in the process they've saved and renovated a good number of historic buildings, but they also have a penchant for razing buildings and land-banking (especially on prominent corners, which they then dress up with grass and fountains), as well as building some very anti-urban new construction with large setbacks and poor siting that prevents anything else from being built nearby. they are not anti-urban, but they are not necessarily operating with an urban sensibility either.
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