Five Martha and Spencer Love School of Business students were able to apply their classroom learning during a one-day trip to Chicago.
Tiemann had three main objectives for the students:
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To see that a city is the center of commerce, culture and population;
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To see that cities are vibrant and are places where face-to-face diversity makes for more productivity; and
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To see the gradient of the city – how the density and height of the buildings rise as you go towards the center of the city.
The students visited the Chicago Board of Trade; took a short architecture and public art tour of Chicago’s downtown; visited the Chicago Center for Green Technology, which demonstrates green building technologies; spent time at the Museum of Contemporary Art; rode the “L” trains; and finished the trip at the top of the Willis Tower.
“Chicago was great because we got to see the concepts we learned in the classroom mapped out in a real world setting,” said Essie Lazarus ’14.
The trip was funded by the LSB and the Department of Economics.