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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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