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BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

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26. The strategy of letting people start without operational and rehabilitation<br />

funds, as in the Wharton and Mount Holly cases, certainly is not<br />

the fastest way to offer a comprehensive program, but may have the advantage<br />

of involving users in the shaping of their own environment and their own<br />

programs, and thus produce a deeper and more lasting identification with<br />

the community center than a renovation done by a commercial developer and<br />

ready-made governmental programs. However, a more balanced approach to<br />

providing community and educational centers would be desirable in order<br />

to support a movement towards co-ordination on a national scale. The present<br />

"make shift" solutions may be alright for an interim period of change from<br />

planning new to re-planning old facilities. In the event that further<br />

changes cannot be accommodated in new buildings, a more substantial<br />

rethinking in terms of re-programming, re-designing and re-modelling of old<br />

buildings will be required in the near future.<br />

27. A further consequence of the rather sudden and unexpected appearance<br />

of a large number of empty schools is the implication of this phenomenon<br />

for the planning of new schools. According to present experience the new<br />

schools will probably not always be used as schools but are likely to have<br />

to serve a different purpose in the course of their life-span. It is<br />

essential, therefore, that this aspect is taken into account in the design<br />

of new educational facilities today.<br />

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