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Bardekjian, Adrina; Classens, Michael; Sandberg, L. Anders – Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2012
This paper presents a campus tour assignment in a first-year undergraduate environmental studies course at York University, Toronto, Canada. As a pedagogical tool, the assignment enables students to interrogate the dominant narratives of a university's immediate physical spaces and to apply broader theoretical and practical concepts to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Environment, Undergraduate Students, Assignments
Ontario Dept. of Education, Toronto. School Planning and Building Research Section. – 1969
This report contains speeches and notes of workshop participants meeting to work out school design guidelines. Participants included educators, architects, engineers, and contractors. Seventeen selections cover such subjects as cost and grant influences on education, schools as community resources, school planning--a team effort, rehabilitation…
Descriptors: Architects, Architectural Character, Building Design, Cooperative Planning
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. Research Branch. – 1981
The new Riverheights School, constructed by the Brandon (Manitoba) School Board for kindergarten through ninth grade students, was built as a "low-profile" school with an "earthberm" in order to save on heating, vandalism, and insurance costs and to integrate the building into a neighborhood park setting.…
Descriptors: Building Innovation, Building Plans, Construction Materials, Costs