Why can't universities be more integrated into the community and distributed like libraries?

Pontifications

Went to the Emily Carr Big Reveal today.
Very gothic, very centralized and very fab but it felt very cathedral-ish to me in the best possible way and in all the negative ways too.
Which begs these questions to me anyways :-):
- Why can’t universities be more integrated into the community and decentralized like public libraries?
  - The libraries have a central branch but then they also have very effective and useful branches in every community.
- Why not have the 21st century equivalent of quonset huts in every community, move them around, and/or make them fixed sites with varying stuff and people and students? i.e. mini distributed university “incubators” everywhere. e.g. a hut with solar cells, power and connectivity that people get scholarships to work at, do art, do science, teach in small tutorial groups, do workshops, etc?