Schools for Cities

by Haar, Sharon; Robbins, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781568983783
• ISBN10: 1568983786
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pr

Summary

Contains essays and current projects to demonstrate ways in which schools can serve as institutions that contribute to a vital civic life. Since the late 1990s, the National Endowment for the Arts, under the direction of Mark Robbins, has been promoting design excellence through an ambitious series of symposia, best-case design studies, and prototype projects. The results of these programs are now documented in a new series of publications, each focusing on design in the public realm and the potential for innovative architecture, landscape architecture, and planning.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
Schools for Cities: Urban Strategies	p. 3
Acknowledgments	p. 12
Reenvisioning Schools: The Mayors' Questions	p. 14
Why Johnny Can't Walk to School	p. 26
Lessons from the Chicago Public Schools Design Competition	p. 34
Something from "Nothing": Information Infrastructure in School Design	p. 42
An Architect's Primer for Community interaction	p. 52
The City of Learning: Schools as Agents for Urban Revitalization	p. 60
Education and the Urban Landscape: Illinois Institute of Technology	p. 70
Prototypes and Paratypes: Future Studies	p. 78
Lick-Wilmerding High School, San Francisco	p. 84
Architecture of Adjustment, New York City	p. 86
Booker T. Washington School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Dallas	p. 88
Camino Nuevo Middle School, Los Angeles	p. 90
Elementary School Prototypes, Chicago Public Schools	p. 92
Bibliography	p. 96
Image Credits	p. 97
Contributors	p. 98
MICD Session Participants	p. 100
Endnotes	p. 101
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