Editing Pratt Institute (section)

===Campus reorganization===
[[File:Prattdekalbjeh.JPG|thumb|DeKalb Avenue Gate of Enclosed Campus]]

As part of [[white flight]] in the 1950s and 1960s which affected the majority of [[New York City]] the neighborhood of Clinton Hill began to see a transformation from an upper-class, affluent, white community to one chiefly populated by poor and working-class people of color. Pratt considered moving its campus to more affluent [[Long Island]] or [[Manhattan]] to increase its attractiveness but decided to stay at its original Brooklyn campus due to the history and Charles Pratt's mission.<ref name="issuu-125th" />

As a consequence of [[Robert Moses|Robert Moses']] plan for [[urban renewal]] in New York City, Pratt's physical campus saw the greatest amount of change in its history. Before the 1950s, the school was located in separate buildings located on several public streets. However, after Moses' clearance of many structures located between Pratt's buildings, including homes, the land was given over to the school, and a true campus was established. Ryerson Street, Grand Avenue, Steuben Street, and Emerson Place were closed to automobile traffic, and the campus was enclosed, forming the Grand Mall to connect the institute's buildings.<ref name="Powell">{{cite news|last=Powell|first=Michael|title=A Tale Of Two Cities|work=The New York Times|page=1|date=6 May 2007|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/nyregion/thecity/06hist.html|access-date=12 February 2017|archive-date=3 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103002343/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/nyregion/thecity/06hist.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The elevated train running along Grand Avenue between the East Building/Student Union and the Engineering Quad was dismantled. In the new real estate, the school was able to build several new structures, Dekalb Hall, Information Science Center and North Hall, all designed by the firm of [[McKim, Mead & White]], including the Information Science Center and Dekalb Hall as well as a new student union.<ref name="campus">{{Cite web |url=http://mysite.pratt.edu/~cg520/frames_c/campus/text.txt |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512101253/http://mysite.pratt.edu/~cg520/frames_c/campus/text.txt |archive-date=2015-05-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Moses' construction projects around the school helped to build the School of Architecture. Research funds were granted to the school to help discover new building techniques. By 1963, the urban planning department formed the Pratt Center for Community Development in an attempt to revitalize Pratt's surrounding neighborhood and Brooklyn.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://prattcenter.net/pratt-center-story|title=The Pratt Center Story &#124; Pratt Center<!-- Bot generated title -->|accessdate=8 July 2023|archive-date=22 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022005911/http://prattcenter.net/pratt-center-story|url-status=dead}}</ref>