This paper explores different degrees and forms of publicness and their relationship with the spatial configuration of a university campus. Based on a literature review, the concept of ‘publicness’ is developed to describe the dimensions of ‘interaction,’ ‘discovery,’ and ‘display’ on campus. The area selected for the case study is De Uithof campus of Utrecht University, located outside the urban fabric in a green environment. Spatial configuration analysis reveals that the two public spaces most-often used by students have high global and local integration scores as well as medium visibility scores. This promises much potential for the production of publicness in both spaces, whereas student surveys revealed some rather substantial differences in publicness between them. Acknowledging detailed differences in terms of physical design, functional facilities, and social composition enables an explanation for why the Academic Hospital Utrecht space lives up more the potential of publicness production than the Heidelberglaan space.

本文探讨了不同程度和形式的公共性及其与大学校园空间配置的关系。基于文献综述，“公共性”的概念被发展为描述校园“互动”、“发现”和“展示”的维度。案例研究选择的区域是乌得勒支大学的 De Uithof 校区，位于城市肌理之外的绿色环境中。空间配置分析表明，学生最常使用的两个公共空间具有较高的全局和本地集成得分以及中等的可见度得分。这为在这两个空间中产生公共性提供了很大的潜力，而学生调查显示它们之间在公共性方面存在一些相当大的差异。承认物理设计方面的详细差异，