PBS 140 Child Care Center Design Guide - The Whole Building ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Caring for Our Children, National Health and Safety Performance Standards:
Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care Programs, Second Edition.
American Academy of Pediatrics, American Public Health Association
and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources
and Services Administration, Elk Grove Village, IL, 2002
An Outdoor Classroom, Steen B. Esbensen, High/Scope Press, Ypsilanti,
MI, 1997
Caring Spaces, Learning Places: Children’s Environments that Work, Jim
Greenman. Exchange Press, Inc., Redmond, WA, 1998
Child Care Design Guide, Anita Olds, PhD, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY,
2000
Child Care Design Institute, Harvard University, Bruce Brook, AIA and Anita
Olds, PhD.
Children’s Design Group, Mark D. Pavey, AIA, Children’s Accessibility
Design, Montgomery, AL
City Design Collaborative, Inc., Anita Olds, PhD. Architectural Prototype
Document, “Study for the Design of Day Care Centers in State Facilities,”
Boston, MA, 1987
Constructivist Early Education: Overview and Comparison with Other Programs,
R. DeVries, and L. Kohlberg, National Association for the Education
of Young Children, Washington, DC, 1987
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The GSA Child Care Center Design Guide contains information obtained from the sources below. However, general concepts, theories, and empirical
information obtained from those sources have not been specifically footnoted. The GSA appreciates the use of these valuable resources which provided a
strong starting point for the GSA in its effort to establish national standards for child care facilities. The sources are listed alphabetically.
Custom Playgrounds, Esther Grossman, Play Yard Design, Brooklandville,
MD
Designing Settings for Infants and Toddlers in Spaces for Children, Anita
Olds, PhD, Weinstein and David (eds), Plenum, 1987
Early Childhood Environment Scale, Thelma Harms and Richard M.
Clifford. Teachers College Press, New York and London, 1980
Environmental Coordinator, Sandra J. Jones, General Services Administration,
Atlanta, GA
Infant/Toddler Rating Scale, Thelma Harms, Richard M. Clifford, and Debby
Cryer. Teachers College Press, New York and London, 1990
Natural Logic, William Reed, AIA, Sustainable Design, Bethesda, MD
Piaget’s Theory of Intellectual Development, Herbert Ginsberg and Sylvia
Opper, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1988
Planning and Design of Children’s Outdoor Play Environments, U.S. Department
of the Army, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC
and National Technical Information Service, Technical Manual TM 5803,
New York, NY, 1982
Play and Playscapes, Joe L. Frost. Delmar Publishers, Inc., Albany, NY,
1992
Play for all Guidelines, Susan M. Goltsman, Daniel S. Iacofano, and Robin
C. Moore. MIG Communications, Berkeley, CA, 1987
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