Yale announced that Robert A.M. Stern, head of Yale’s architecture school and architect of Moore Hall at Dartmouth (but nothing at Yale), will design two new residential colleges that will join the dozen colleges already existing and allow enrollment to grow from about 5,200 to about 6,000. A nice map shows the relation of the site to the existing colleges; the perceived distance from the center seems to be causing controversy.

Yale has come out with a new book called Yale in New Haven that focuses on the institution’s urbanism.

A check of the latest online map for Yale shows an impressively detailed work, but using it still seems to require a great deal of calculation by the user.

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[Update 05.03.2014: Broken link to online map replaced, this commentary removed: “Everything interesting seems to lie on the seams between the map zones. Perhaps we have all been spoiled by Google Maps’ draggability. The map instructions are a bit funny: ‘Welcome to the Yale University interactive map. Please use the map to quickly find buildings and organizations on campus.'”]
[Update 01.05.2013: Broken link to pdf map replaced.]