Campustown & Riverview
5 Campustown & Riverview
Bordering Downtown and the downtrodden Southside neighbourhood Campustown is a neighbourhood dominated by the prestigious UC Oakwood's City Campus (it's other campus being located in Katherine). Coming just below UC Berkeley in national listings it attracts students from across the globe. It's acreage is smaller than some other UC campuses meaning it's enrollment is smaller than average at around 16,000 enrolled undergraduate and postgraduate students. The surrounding areas are mostly home to student homes in attractive row houses, independent bookstores and coffee shops and university admin buildings. Next door is the neighbourhood of Riverview sandwiched between the Clare River and Campustown with Downtown to the west and the city limits to the east. Houses here are mostly owned by businessmen who work downtown and thus the area is much more gentrified than Southside or Bridgeforth.
5.1 Hannart Park
These shops are very popular with students and lecturers alike. Ritual Roasters coffee shop is the first of the branch to open outside of San Francisco and has rave reviews on the website Yelp meaning queues for it's rich, smooth roast can often go out of the door. Green Leaf Grocery is part of the Delaware Co-Operative Society which also runs two coffee shops and another grocery store on Delaware Avenue.
5.2 Uptown (Thurton Square)
This area is unofficially known as "Uptown" but really lies within Campustown between the Civic Center and Midtown. In recent years some of the office occupiers here such as Verizon and Chase have wanted to make a more professionally orinetated area to encourage greater development. It worked to some extent with the City Hall Transit Center's renovation leaking over into Thurton Square but the presence of Sam's Campustown branch is a constant reminder of the area's bohemian roots in the 1970s before many of the office blocks were constructed and independent stores and tenements lined the streets around the University.
5.3 Upper Riverview
Rubbing up against Market Avenue and the Clare River the Upper Riverview neighbourhood is an odd mix between renovated tenement buildings, 1950s apartment blocks and more modern office buildings bleeding into the area from Downtown. It has traditionally been badly served by public transport but the reinstatement of the T Trolly line along 14th St and Market Ave has made commuting to Downtown and Midtown much easier.
5.4 Livermore Square
City Cemetery is the size of a city block and was begun in 1922 as a way to provide the city's burial needs out of the city's central area. In the 1930s development grew up around the cemetery along the T Trolly line which runs around it and by 1954 the cemetery was full and bodies begun to be burried in the larger cemeteries in St Mark and Katherine outside city limits. A limited number of plots are still available for the city's mayors as a sort of reward. Livermore Square is a small collection of stores based around the H line metro station including a Starbucks and the independent Ridgemore Groceries.
5.5 East Campustown
A very student orientated area of Oakwood East Campustown is home to a mix of row houses rented out to students, a huge apartment block called City Apartment Tower and a small strip mall. This kind of mixed density development is due to an odd policy of zoning law which varies from block to block and has been criticsed by many for allowing such large developments as City Apartments. Oleg Field soccer ground belongs to the Wilmott Alec School across the road but is also used by the public and UC Oakwood's small soccer team.
5.6 Central Campustown
Bordering UC Oakwood's campus this row of shops is mainly used by students. It is also opposite the semi-public Alan Morson Library which is owned by UC Oakwood but due to an agreement reached in 1995 it was opened to the public for their research and usage. The shops here are mostly independent apart from McDonalds and Wells Fargo bank. Burston Books on the corner of 13th & California offers the best array of academic books in the city and is part-owned by the UC Trust.
5.7 UC Oakwood West
Built mainly in the early 1940s in a style similar to that of the long-established UC Berkeley Oakwood University was absorbed into the UC Trust in 1959 and has gone from strength to strength academically. The Social Sciences and Tellese Buildings are the most recent additions to the campus (other than the Alan Morson Library) being built in 1984.
5.8 UC Oakwood North
The main building on campus is the ornate Bannerman Hall which is located at the top of Chancellor Drive. Inside is a large dining hall, 3 lecture theatres and admin offices. The West Building is the main home of the School of the Arts and includes 10 different studios for various artistic enterprises. The Campus Lake was created in 1960 when soil was needed to landscape an area of demolished buildings at the rear of the University and an ornate lake was created.
5.9 UC Oakwood Campus Map
A map of the main City Campus which takes up 4 city blocks and intercepts 13th St and Connecticut St.
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