Yale University — Yale University Map Poster & Print

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Yale University Map Poster & Print

Yale is not a campus set apart from its city. It is built into it. From above, the university reads as a series of closed blocks, each a residential college wrapped around its own courtyard and pressed against the streets of downtown New Haven. The Old Campus faces the New Haven Green, the central square of a town plan laid out in nine squares in 1638, and the university grew outward from that corner.

Founded in 1701, Yale moved to New Haven early in the eighteenth century and spent the next three hundred years filling the surrounding blocks. The map shows how its Gothic and Georgian buildings hold the street edge and keep the open space inside. To the north, Hillhouse Avenue and Science Hill stretch the pattern into longer, looser blocks, while the medical campus sits apart to the southwest.

A Yale University map poster keeps all of this in black line on a white ground: the rhythm of courtyards, the rectangle of the Green, the railway and harbour edge to the south. It works as a record of years spent between Cross Campus and the library stacks, drawn at a scale where the streets you walked every day stay legible and named.