BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

i) to create equal opportunities for all races and social classes
and thus further the racial and social integration mainly in
urban areas;
ii) to alleviate educational and social services deficits through a
comprehensive planning process including the users;
iii) to produce a new type of facility which would be better suited
than traditional schools to serve as a focal point for community
activities;
iv) to enhance inter-agency co-operation and communication to alleviate
duplication of services and to create missing links.
32. The following is an attempt to summarise which strategies were used
to attain these goals and how they influenced programming and planning
processes, co-operative models, educational content and teaching methods
ology, architecture and urban design, and cost factors. Table 1 (showing
the time needed for the planning and implementation of the three centers,
the type of school planned and the number of pupils enrolled, the capital
costs incurred, the areas provided and the types of use made of the
facilities demonstrates the vast differences between these new centers
and traditional schools (with standard programs and one purpose), and
explains why new strategies had to be found for planning, organisation,
implementation and use.
Planning Processes
33. In the choice of strategies for the initial programming and planning
processes, significant differences between the three centers can be found.
Table 2 (Column 4) shows that seed money for the programming process was
available in all three cases. This was an achievement in itself. The
ways in which this money was used (Column 5) differ,, This difference not
only influenced later administrative arrangements, services, uses and
operating arrangements (Table 3, Columns 1-6), but also stated and observed
achievements and problems today (Table 5, Columns 1-2)
a) The Dana P. Whitmer Human Resources Center in Pontiac, Michigan
(see Figure 1)
34. A petition signed by 300 parents, asking that the 69 year old
McConnell Elementary School be replaced, gave the original impetus for
Pontiac's new Human Resources Center (HRC). Pontiac's Board of Education
and City Administration responded to the petition and to the need to
replace half a dozen other inner city elementary schools by deciding
that the schools needed more than just new buildings.
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