BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

44. Such a design was somewhat exceptional a few years ago. The Human
Resources Center was regarded as unique. Today it is not exceptional.
Indeed, in those processes in which citizens are given the opportunity to
participate in planning and design, the first requests to be made are
usually for co-ordination and accessibility. Over two hundred people participated
in the planning and design process of the Gananda Neighborhood
Center, the first building in a proposed new town near Rochester, and the
result was once again an internal street with the various components of
the community center opening from it; the school, the arts center, the
public library, the community indoor recreation component, and so forth.
Similarly in the Queensgate II Town Center in Cincinnati, where over a
thousand citizens have participated in various aspects of programming and
design, the education components have, once again merged indistinguishably
into a comprehensive multi-level development. Offices, higher educational
facilities, educational television studios and housing all are entered
from a public square surrounded by shops and a city market, on an upper
level above parking decks for 575 cars.(l) In Roosevelt Island, a new
town on an island in the East River in central New York City, school facilities
occur along the shopping street in the ground floors of tall buildings.
New universities and colleges are beginning to follow similar
forms. The new university in Indianapolis, for example, after a planning
process in which students and citizens were intensively involved with university
officials and architects, will be built with a central enclosed
street which will have shops, banks, offices and theaters serving the students
and the general public, and the university itself will be built over
and around the street, like a city.(2) In Montreal, Canada, a plan has
been developed to use the underground Metro as a street or movement system
to interrelate resources in the city. Students will travel by Metro to
use resources such as public libraries, galleries, government buildings,
etc., according to agreed programs and structured seminars, study
1) Urban Design Associates, Queensgate II Town Center, Cincinnati, Ohio,
a report to the Department of Urban Development, Cincinnati, 1975.
2) Urban Design Associates and Woollen Associates, Indiana University/
Purdue University in Indianapolis, a report to the Board of Regents,
Indiana, 1975.
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