BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

tion of new teachers; staff development is considered as a necessity and
as serious as child development; one talks in terms of "multiple roles"
and demonstrates to the children that human beings can assume more than
one role - for example, a postman tuning a piano). No wonder that people
continually apply to work in SAND and the number of competent volunteers
supporting it is, and has been, tremendous.
146. One cannot help getting enthusiastic about the mixture of expertise
from different sources and good plain common sense that has gone into
creating the planning, architectural and educational solutions. At the
same time they seem to be geared to the complex problems of a ghetto
neighbourhood and yet draw on the latest social, educational and design
approaches. A spirit of local endeavour is thereby created which in the
best sense reflects the possibilities latently present in the communitybased
decision-making structure in the United States. SAND's success
seems to be based on several factors:
- continuous leadership since the inception of the project;
- excellent expert resources and the right mix of legal, financial
and educational planning expertise;
- being part of a region-wide endeavour;
- making full use of the opportunities of governmental support
available at different times.
The influence of the SAND project on developments in the city is considerable.
The city has not only started to adopt the SAND policy of dispersed
facilities, it has also recently begun to decentralise various city
departmentso
The Ann Arbor Community/School Concept
147. In the same way that Hartford (to the citizens in the United States)
connotes "insurance companies", Ann Arbor means the "University of Michigan",
The university is by far the largest industry in the city followed by
research industries which draw on its scientific resources. The old university
city with a population of 100 000 is part of an urban corridor
growing rapidly westwards from Detroit. Interstate Highway 94 connecting
Ann Arbor with Detroit is one of seven major radial corridors changing the
urbanisation pattern of the metropolitan area. Although open countryside
still exists in the 35 mile distance between Ann Arbor and Detroit, it is
easy to see that within a few years there will be a continuous development
between the two cities. Unlike the present inner city structure, much of
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