ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the key factors that lie behind the masterplanning process and how it fits within wider institutional governance. The idea of the planned campus is, in many ways, at the heart of the development of the idea of the university. Although many contemporary institutions bear the marks of uncoordinated developments in relation to periods of rapid growth in research and student numbers, most now recognise the need for strategic planning of their estates. The idea of planning the relationship between function and form dates back to medieval European universities which, as for example in the case of Oxford and Cambridge, brought together the classic combination of teaching, residence, dining hall and chapel around a central open space. The University of York, UK founded in 1963, is a good example of a planned university adapting its founding principles to future expansion as the university grew in stature and size.
