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==Origin of terminology== The term ''plateglass'' was coined by [[Michael Beloff]] for a book he wrote about these universities,<ref name=Beloff>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YeS2BCfN3AYC&pg=PA11|title=The Plateglass Universities |publisher=Secker & Warburg |date=31 December 1968 |access-date=30 June 2017|page=11|isbn=9780838675502 }}</ref> to reflect their [[Modern architecture|modern]] architectural design which often contains wide expanses of [[plate glass]] in steel or concrete frames. This contrasted with the (largely [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]]) [[red brick university|red brick universities]] and the very much older [[ancient university|ancient universities]]. {{quote|I had at the start to decide upon a generic term for the new universities β they will not be new for ever. None of the various caps so far tried have fitted. "Greenfields" describes only a transient phase. "Whitebrick", "Whitestone", and "Pinktile" hardly conjure up the grey or biscuit concrete massiveness of most of their buildings, and certainly not the black towers of Essex. "Newbridge" is fine as far as the novelty goes, but where on earth are the bridges? Sir Edward Boyle more felicitously suggested "Shakespeare". But I have chosen to call them the Plateglass Universities. It is architecturally evocative; but more important, it is metaphorically accurate.<ref name=Beloff/>}} Beloff applied the term specifically to the new creations of the 1960s, not including the institutions promoted from [[university college]]s or [[college of advanced technology (United Kingdom)|colleges of advanced technology]], or created by division of existing universities "as Durham shed Newcastle". All of the original plateglass universities were created ''de novo'' as universities.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YeS2BCfN3AYC&pg=PA25|title=The Plateglass Universities |publisher=Secker & Warburg |date=31 December 1968 |access-date=30 June 2017|page=25|isbn=9780838675502 }}</ref>
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