North Campus in Albuquerque, NM

North Campus is a residential neighborhood in Albuquerque, directly north of the University of New Mexico and reaching up to Indian School Road, with the university's North Golf Course along its western edge. R. B. Waggoman platted the Vista Larga tract at its heart in 1947, a year after finishing the Nob Hill Business Center, and builders filled the streets with Ranch, Contemporary, and International Style houses, plus simplified Spanish-Pueblo and American Small House designs east of Princeton Avenue. Part of that tract carries a National Register listing as the Vista Larga Mid-Century Modern Residential Historic District. Netherwood, Summit, and Altura parks lie just beyond.

Vista Larga filled in slowly. The first house in the historic district went up on Columbia Drive in 1948, construction peaked in 1956, and the last contributing house was finished in 1967. Waggoman laid the streets out to catch the long view west over the Rio Grande Valley toward Mount Taylor, and the blocks east of Princeton Avenue read plainer than the modernist ones beside them.

No homeowners association governs the neighborhood. The North Campus Neighborhood Association is a voluntary group that runs a community listserv, coffee mingles, and an annual members meeting, and it argued the residents' case against a proposed gas station at the Carlisle and Indian School corner. The course on the western edge belongs to the university, plays nine holes, and is open to public tee times.