Open university spaces play a key role in the renewed concept of a campus as a place of learning, where knowledge exits the classroom and is present in every area of academic life, both formal and informal. This concept of an “integrated campus” or “didactic campus” that is functionally and structurally integrated into the city requires planning its open spaces so as to adapt them to these objectives. It is a question of reactivating campus life by relying on processes similar to those that occur in the city. The demand for a flexible, public space for culture and learning is not exclusive to university settings, though it is there that producing and incentivizing such spaces makes the
most sense. The consolidation of new university models requires a correct definition of an open space on three levels: urban (through its itineraries), neighborhood (around the university square) and an intimate scale (that of social micro-spaces for learning). This article analyzes the different trends at these three levels so as to learn from their successes and hardships in consolidating an integrated campus learning model.