Planning and Designing Schools (Hardcover)

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With a new baby boom on the horizon for the 21st century, large increases in the number of school-age children will drive the rehabilitation of outdated facilities and the construction of new ones. The school market, from elementary through university, is thriving, and comprehensive analysis of the requirements of tomorrow's schools is sorely needed. New educational tools, new mixes of student bodies, and new philosophies of learning characterize today's schools; this book illuminates the design implications for the retrofitting and new construction of elementary and secondary schools.

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With a new baby boom on the horizon for the 21st century, large increases in the number of school-age children will drive the rehabilitation of outdated facilities and the construction of new ones. The school market, from elementary through university, is thriving, and comprehensive analysis of the requirements of tomorrow's schools is sorely needed. New educational tools, new mixes of student bodies, and new philosophies of learning characterize today's schools; this book illuminates the design implications for the retrofitting and new construction of elementary and secondary schools.

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When we think about nineteenth-century school buildings, we tend to visualize a nineteenth-century one-room schoolhouse in a rural setting and ignore the urban schools of the era, which were planned for growing cities. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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