
Map: Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP, "Princeton Campus Plan," published 2008
By 1951 Collegiate Gothic was no longer the official architectural style "due to cost and other factors" and Princeton University, like Oxford, Cambridge and other American universities, pursued a more "contemporary" style. The township and borough of Princeton also experienced a building boom after World War II. In the decade from 1950 to 1960, the population of the township doubled. By the 1970s the area was heavily populated and many new streets were created.