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- University of Victoria Master Plan April - May 1961. In planning the new campus, basic decisions that would establish its character for all time had to be made. Planners undertook to design the university grounds along teh lines of an open garden campus much in the manner of all Victoria where well tended landscaping is appreciated. The ring road (University Drive) was devised as an enclosing space and as a means of organizing the area for orderly placement of buildings and ancillary services. Although several aspects of the original plan were changed, its main features are remarkably consistent with the present appearance of UVic almost 30 years later. The most striking feature of the University of Victoria master plan was a perfectly circular central campus, 2,000 feet (610 meters) in diameter and 72 acres (29 hectares) in area. Within the ring, all academic instruction would take place. This was strictly to be a pedestrian zone, with vehicular traffic to be directed around ring road. Liberal arts would be situated on the north side of the circle and the sciences on the south. The are outside the ring was blocked into well defined zones of usage: administration, auditorium, student housing, student union, athletics, parking areas and space for future academic expansion. Source: University of Victoria Development Of The Gordon Head Campus. By Peter L. Smith and Martin J. Segger, University of Victoria, 1988.
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