BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

critical path which was designed \for the master planning process
for the new Indiana University/Purdue University campus in
Indianapolis, a process involving city officials and citizens
with the students, faculty and administration of the university.
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d) At this point or earlier in the process, a decision has to be
made as to who is going to do the technical work of programming
and design, i.e. who staffs the process. In the United States
the "best solution is usually a consulting firm of planners/architects,
selected by the Steering Committee following a proposaland-interview
procedure. In other countries, the best solution
may be an official planning staff.
e) The first task of the technical staff is data collection. Thisfalls
into two main categories, "hard data" and "perceptions".
- "Hard" data is the typical planning base of demography,
budgets, land use, zoning, codes, available programs, the
regulations and priorities governing those programs, and
so forth;
- "Perceptions" are the viewpoints of a representative sample
of citizens, officials, users, etc., with regard to the
problem and the issues. These are very important. As
mentioned earlier in this paper, the way issues are seen
by local citizens and users is frequently very different
indeed from the way the same issue's are seen by planners,
architects, or officials. And every process in which-
1) Urban Design Associates and Woollen Associates, Indiana University/
Purdue University in Indianapolis, op.cit., also David Lewis and
Raymond L. Gindroz, "Toward a Design Process that Re-Enfranchises
Citizens and Consumers", The American Institute of Architect Journal,
November 1974.
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