BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek
BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek
BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek
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the rest of the school.<br />
Additional facilities. Kitchens near entrance areas and surplus<br />
storage spaces are needed in schools which serve community purposes.<br />
Heating and lighting. It is desirable to provide heating and lighting<br />
systems that can be controlled by areas.<br />
Music rooms and assembly halls. These facilities need to be equipped<br />
with special sound-proofing to be usable during the day and at night<br />
without inconvenience to activities in adjacent facilities.<br />
122. East Windsor may be ahead of other municipalities or school districts<br />
but it is not an exception. In 1975 seventy-five school districts in the<br />
area decided to go the community education route.<br />
THE INTERVENTIONIST APPROACH<br />
The Greater Hartford Process and the S<strong>AND</strong> Project<br />
a) The Greater Hartford Process<br />
123. Hartford, Connecticut, the insurance capital of the United States is<br />
a medium sized city of 158 000 population and a rich mixture of ethnic<br />
groups including Irish, Polish, Greek, French Canadian, German and Puerto<br />
Rican communities. Its catchment area within the Greater Hartford Region<br />
encompasses 29 towns and a population of approximately 670 000. Because<br />
of its easy access to the sea via the Connecticut and Long Island Sound,<br />
Hartford's position as a commercial center has long been assured. Its<br />
convenient proximity to the nation's major markets is cited today as one<br />
of the main reasons why conservative estimates predict a doubling of the<br />
population in the region by the year 2000. This growth will occur virtually<br />
exclusively in the outer ring of towns.<br />
124, Severe unemployment problems and.a concentration of the poor, the<br />
blacks and Puerto Ricans in the City of Hartford coupled with urban<br />
renewal programs, which replaced delapidated housing with commercial<br />
establishments and light industry, caused violent riots during the. late<br />
60's. Against this background the Greater Hartford business community in<br />
1969 established something called the Greater Hartford Process. Harnessing<br />
public and private interests, its goal is to improve the social and physical<br />
quality of the Greater Hartford Region by:<br />
- bringing the essential parties to one table;<br />
- linking planning and development with a commitment to carry out<br />
the plans;<br />
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