Comment on the Draft Plan
The comprehensive physical plan for UB’s three campus centers is ready for review and critique. Get started by choosing a topic of discussion below:
To facilitate feedback on the plan, images and details are being provided on the Flickr photo sharing site.
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Introduction
The plan to make UB’s North, South and Downtown campus centers great places in which to live, learn, and work, assigns them new identities and purposes in the larger life of the university. As important as the development of physical landscapes is creation of learning landscapes and public realms. The plan also addresses transportation and energy use. | Learn more
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North Campus
North Campus will be the academic heart of the university, the core of the undergraduate experience, and home to the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. It will be more accessible, more sustainable, and, most of all, more sociable, lively, and lovable. | Learn more
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South Campus
South Campus will be a center of professional education for law, management, education, social work, and architecture and planning. It will preserve classic quadrangles and historic structures, and be better integrated with nearby neighborhoods. | Learn more
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Downtown Campus
Downtown Campus will unite medicine and biomedical sciences, nursing, public health and health professions, dental medicine, and pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences and the region’s leading hospitals to promote synergies for education, research, and clinical care—and bring new life to downtown. | Learn more
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Learning Landscape
Today, learning happens anywhere, not just in classrooms or libraries. The plan will create a new “learning landscape” in which technology, information resources, people, and food all come together in exciting and comfortable new learning spaces. | Learn more
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Ecological Design
The environmental challenges our planet faces mean that UB must become a model of sustainable practices that will touch the way we travel, heat and cool our buildings, manage storm water, and handle our wastes. This plan shows the way. | Learn more
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Transportation
Global climate change and a new energy economy demand that the ways we travel to and from campus must be more responsible. This plan outlines how we can manage the issue of transportation as it affects the university, the community, and the environment. | Learn more
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Campus Character
Each of UB’s three campuses has a unique landscape—natural and human-made—that makes each a special place. How we shape them, and how we take care of them, determines how well each one supports the core mission of the university. | Learn more