BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

iii) produce a detailed planning proposal for Slauson Junior High
School and a detailed planning proposal and architectural design
for Mack Elementary School as a prototype for both the capital
program and the master plan; such a planning, and design process
would bring parents, teachers and pupils in each of the neighbourhoods
into a dialogue with the agencies, etc. (some local, others
regional). It would also make them focus their attention on a
precise project - a building to be built and education programs
to be designed - and on the project's specific role as an example
- a local undertaking - within the infrastructure as a whole.
1 50. During the four day visit made to Ann Arbor as part of the present
study, an attempt was made to find out what had happened to the districtwide
community education plan, what had been implemented, what had been
abandoned, and the reasons for the respective decisions taken. The proposals
contained in the four volumes prepared by UDA (Volume I: Summary
of Recommendations; Volume II: the Physical Masterplan; Volume III:
the Education Plan; and Volume IV: the Physical and Educational Design
Processes), were compared with the results of interviews in schools, at
the central administration, and the University of Michigan.
a) The Planning Process
151. "Because of the complexity and contradictions of the political and
social climate of Ann Arbor it was decided in initial discussions ....
to develop a plan at the regional scale which would serve as a framework
for interrelating the resources of the region, a strategy for bringing
jurisdictions and agencies, institutions and citizen groups, together to
discuss questions of mutual concern and advantage, using education, and
particularly the present capital program, as the catalyst ... The physical
master plan must be seen essentially as a statement of recommended
policy, and as a series of strategies to achieve the goals of that policy.
It is addressed to the region's only metropolitan agency capable of
providing comprehensive leadership in addition to a capital program which
can provide the implementation of at least the education components of
agreed interrelated action."(1)
1) UDA, "Summary of Recommendations", Vol. I, pages 29-30.
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