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Sustainable university campuses and the city - a case study
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The importance of sustainable university campuses extends nowadays beyond the boundaries of the university to the urban surroundings. By adopting sustainable practices these spaces can contribute to the quality of life in cities. There is nowadays a search for integration between campuses and cities, exploring new models for their joint growth, which requires a deep understanding of their relationship. This study aimed to understand what is behind the adoption of outdoor spaces on campuses by common citizens. The research methodology was based on a case study by means of a qualitative analysis method with data collection through observation and interviews. The case study is the Santa Apolónia Campus of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança in Portugal. Housed on a former farm, the campus is in the heart of the city and includes extensive green areas accessible to the urban community. The results revealed that citizens make use of the campus in different ways. They cross it as part of their daily urban mobility and use it both as a recreational area and as a ground for farming due to the existence of community gardens. The results suggest also that the campus is considered indistinctly from other public spaces which is strongly connected with the search for certain conditions of well-being, particularly regarding outdoor thermal comfort, nature connection, and urban leisure. This search seems to be the engine that connects ordinary citizens to outdoor spaces on campus. The results also reinforce the significant role that the location of campuses in the city center and their sustainable spatial design and configuration can play in the campus-city connection. Of relevance in this case were the spaces that enable people to meet and socialize, such as the vegetable gardens, which seem to have a distinct influence on reinforcing citizens' sense of belonging to the campus.
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Sustainable campus Campus-city relationship Outdoor spaces Urban planning Urban well-being
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Abreu, Maria Isabel; Lopes, Jorge; Oliveira, Rui (2025). Sustainable university campuses and the city - a case study. In 5th edition of the international conference on Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability.
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IEREK