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III. Third day. Team executes design recommendations and writes its
report. (Usually this is a 25-hour day.)
IV. Fourth day. Report is printed. Team rests until afternoon.
Press and T.V. Evening: Public meeting for presentation of
report and recommendations to citizens and council.
107. The strategy of the R/UDAT program is not to sol.ve problems (although
it has been successful in this regard), but to get citizens and officials
to face problems simultaneously and together. R/UDAT is not offered as
."a panacea for all conflicts and crises, but it does provide an opportunity
to review urban problems with a group of people who have dealt with similar
problems before, and who are willing to share the benefits of their experience
and skills with others".(l)
Networks of Urban Alternatives
108. All of these techniques are concerned with the co-ordination of
facilities and human services, based on the needs which the users themselves
help to establish. Two kinds of co-ordination emerge. One occurs
within a Center. At the Center a number of facilities, historically separate,
are concentrated for reasons of economy and usage. Policies of
interrelation within the Center are established, allowing new options in
programming to permutate. The Center is in the focus of access routes,
bringing people from all parts of. the community, all walks of life, all
age-groups and interests, to it. It is a confluence.
109. But co-ordination can occur radially in the form of a network also.
The new Center, while co-ordinating the facilities within it, can also act
as the catalyst for co-ordinating facilities which already exist in the
community and which it would be wasteful to replicate. The second kind
of co-ordination to emerge is therefore a comprehensive and programmed
network of linkages interrelating facilities in the community.
110. This network of linkages could occur as radials focussing on a new
Center. This is the Pontiac model. Or it could occur as a network interrelating
only existing facilities, without in fact building anything
new at all. This is the Southeast Alternatives model in Minneapolis, •
United States.
111. The Southeast Alternatives involves five schools in the southeast
quadrant of the city. Taken all together, the "service area" covered by
1) R/UDAT, op.cit.
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