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Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village, revised edition: The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece

Thomas Jefferson's design for the University of Virginia is widely hailed as a masterpiece. It is his greatest architectural accomplishment, the summation of his quest for intellectual freedom. The story of the University encompasses the political and architectural worlds, as Jeffeson struggled against great opposition to establish a new type of educational institution. Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village offers a comprehensive look at Jefferson's design for the University, at how it came into being, at the different perecptions of its successes and failures, and at the alterations that have taken place down through the years.
The revised edition incorporates research that has been ongoing since the book first appeared in 1993, and includes a preface by Richard Guy Wilson, essays on architecture and education and the Lawn, additional architectural drawings and historic photographs, a foreword by President John T. Casteen III, and numerous color illustrations.

This is University Village, UIC's South Campus community. This is a photo from the walking tour I made today. This is my first time walking amongst the buildings. I once lived in the dorms at University Village. Maxwell St. and Halsted St. would be the centerpiece of the neighborhood.

These signs are all over the neighborhood. The primary purpose is to keep students from parking here.

This is looking north towards the UIC South Campus dorms, and the UIC South Campus sport fields.

This is University Village, UIC's South Campus community. This is a photo from the walking tour I made today. This is my first time walking amongst the buildings. I once lived in the dorms at University Village. Maxwell St. and Halsted St. would be the centerpiece of the neighborhood.

This integration of earlier and new scholarship reconceptualizes the origins of civilization, challenging the received view that the ancient Near East spawned the spread of civilization outward from Mesopotamia to all other neighboring cultures. Central Asia is here shown to have been a major player in the development of cities.

Skillfully documenting the different phases of both Soviet and earlier Western external analyses along with recent excavation results, this new interpretation reveals Central Asia's role in the socioeconomic and political processes linked to both the Iranian Plateau and the Indus Valley, showing how it contributed substantively to the origins of urbanism in the Old World. Hiebert's research at Anau and his focus on the Chalcolithic levels provide an essential starting point for understanding both the nature of village life and the historical trajectories that resulted in Bronze Age urbanism.