Harvey Van Sickle    668035 Mon, 22 Sep 03 01:40 PM I'm in the middle of writing a topographical summary which describes, in point form, the radical clearance of earlier development and streets to create a college (now university) campus. "The maps show the radical nature of the redevelopment, and the resulting (campusing? campusification? campusificationalisation? ..hmm..) of the site". I may resign myself to using a descriptive phrase, but I'd love to find a single verb any suggestions? Cheers, Harvey Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years; Southern England for the past 21 years. (for e-mail, change harvey to whhvs) Harvey Van Sickle Universities, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Students, Schools

	mickwick    668082 Mon, 22 Sep 03 03:32 PM "Institutionalisation." "Hmmm...perhaps. I had in mind something more specific to campuses "institutionalisation" could, I think, cover the re-use of existing streets or building of a megastructure, rather than the creation of a completely new layout of discrete-but-related buildings." True. If it's a typical block-strewn-lawn campus, why not 'sterilisation'? Seriously, I think 'campusing' is your best bet. Or 'encampusment'? No, that's even more barbaric. (What were campuses called in BrE before they were called campuses? I think campus is a fairly recent import from America.) Mick 'My architecture is very rusty, in the best Corbusian fashion' wick mickwick Countries, United States

	Harvey Van Sickle    668113 Mon, 22 Sep 03 03:47 PM "I'm in the middle of writing a topographical summary which ... I'd love to find a single verb any suggestions?" "Use 'campusization' (in quotes, the first time you use it)." I'll ponder that: I'm leaning towards "campusing" (in quotes), as it seems cleaner than the -isation form. Cheers, Harvey Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years; Southern England for the past 21 years. (for e-mail, change harvey to whhvs) Harvey Van Sickle Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain

	Harvey Van Sickle    668130 Mon, 22 Sep 03 03:54 PM "True. If it's a typical block-strewn-lawn campus, why not 'sterilisation'? Seriously, I think 'campusing' is your best bet." That's what I'll probably opt for - as mentioned to Richard, though, I'll put it in quotes the first time I use it. "Or 'encampusment'? No, that's even more barbaric." A *seriously* ugly word, for some reason.. "(What were campuses called in BrE before they were called campuses? I think campus is a fairly recent import from America.)" I don't think they really existed prior to the greenfield-site universities of the 1960s, at which date the term would have been imported. Prior to that development, they tended to be either buildings belonging to a single college or a collection of miscellaneous structures scattered around part of the city. Cheers, Harvey Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years; Southern England for the past 21 years. (for e-mail, change harvey to whhvs) Harvey Van Sickle Universities, Dates, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States, Students, Schools

	Frances Kemmish    668131 Mon, 22 Sep 03 04:03 PM "I'll ponder that: I'm leaning towards "campusing" (in quotes), as it seems cleaner than the -isation form." At my daughter's high school, "campusing" meant being confined to campus for some misdeed. Fran Frances Kemmish

	Gary Vellenzer    668147 Mon, 22 Sep 03 04:32 PM "I'm in the middle of writing a topographical summary which describes, in point form, the radical clearance of earlier development ... I may resign myself to using a descriptive phrase, but I'd love to find a single verb any suggestions?" For "resulting" read "subsequent" the urban renewal did not in and of itself create a campus. "Reinvention as a campus". There is no need to strive for a single word. Gary Gary Vellenzer