Hill Library and focusing student activities on a new South Campus student center and gymnasium. In 1963, several points of the 1958 plan were reemphasized, including zoning of the academic campus around D. The plan for the university’s urban center was thus established. It defined a compact, high-rise, pedestrian-scaled campus with all essential services within a ten-minute walking radius. In 1960 the university established the Campus Planning Office, which updated the 1958 plan.
It established a central pedestrian area (University Plaza), suggested moving vehicular traffic to the campus’ periphery, and dispersed some new construction into all areas of a six-hundred-acre campus. The 1958 plan divided academic activity from student activity into North and South Campuses, respectively. Adherence to the master plan was desirable but not mandatory. The physical master plan brought some coherence to a burgeoning campus, but while it was meant to help the university achieve other strategic long-range goals, it did not become a formal part of the strategic planning process. NC State’s first postwar physical master plan was created in 1958, the same year the university’s first modern long-range strategic plan was written. After the Second World War, however, enrollment surged, many graduate and research programs were restored or started, and the university embarked on an optimistic course of growth that continues to the present. Planning for expansive growth was not a priority. Plans of the 1920s called for grouping buildings that housed like activities, such as the agriculture and engineering groupings on the North Campus, classrooms around the Court of North Carolina, the university administration near Holladay Hall, athletics around Riddick Stadium, and student residence halls south of the railroad.ĭuring the Great Depression, the university lost several graduate programs, and its progress was in jeopardy. Many of the Courtyards, Open Spaces, and walkways in the older sections of the campus appear to have been part of an original intention but in fact were nurtured and developed piece by piece over the years.įrom the university’s pastoral beginning along Pullen Road, enrollment and facilities grew steadily and moderately until the end of the First World War, after which they accelerated. And history intervened in ways that often focused planning on near-term rather than long-term needs. Early design efforts focused on a much smaller campus than today’s twenty-one hundred acres and over 14.7 million gross square feet of built space accommodating a community of over forty-five thousand people. Campus History The Physical Development of NC State Universityįew if any of NC State’s founders foresaw the growth that the university has experienced.
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