The amount of research space required in higher education depends first upon the level of activity devoted to research by those who participate, and second upon the type of academic program involved, e.g. humanities, social sciences, engineering. Knowledge of numbers, of faculty as well as of graduate students, is vital to achieve meaningful space…

Five members of the planning committee for the proposed Mission College campus took an inspection tour of five exemplary colleges in the East and Middle West: Miami-Dade Junior College, Miami; Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, N.J.; Governors State University, Crete, Ill.; Oakland Community College, Orchard Ridge Campus, Farmington, Mich.;…

The Farallones Designs group is dedicated to "helping ourselves and other people create more human places for living, learning, working, playing,...to returning architecture to its roots in each person,...to creating access to the design process and tools." The Scrapbook is a "partial record of eighteen months together helping kids and teachers to…

The Valley View 45-15 Continuous School Year Plan, begun by the Valley View School District 96, Lockport, Illinois, in June 1970, calls for each student to attend school 45 schooldays and then have a 15-schoolday vacation. Thus, only three-fourths of the entire student body is in school at one time, resulting in a 33% increase in classrooms…

This address describes how one school district overcame the problems of too many students for the available classroom space and of insufficient funds to provide additional classrooms. In one school a year-round program for students in grades one through six was proposed and supported by parents and teachers. A school calendar was established that…

The trend toward community use of school space is influenced by the financial wisdom of extending the use of large, centrally located, and well-equipped, public buildings. When more services can share the same facility, taxpayer savings are greater and community access is easier. Different approaches that communities and educators have taken to…

Problem areas in the conversion of buildings into vocational schools are costs, adaptability and flexibility, and location. (EC)

Notes that, although the open space design has not been problem free, satisfactory solutions have been found and the fears about the non feasibility of utilizing an open space program with minority youngsters has proven to be as ill-founded as the myth that black students cannot compete with whites successfully. (Author/AM)

Examples are cited to support the argument that structures and spaces, especially public buildings and spaces, establish and reaffirm hierarchies of values for society. These buildings and spaces define both goals and people as important or as expendable, and win support for the values of those groups that are already powerful. (JMD)

Concepts and practices employed in Third World countries for conserving space and energy in urban areas are described. Suggestions are offered for applying some of these ideas to an apartment complex on Roosevelt Island, New York. (GC)

High degrees of neighboring were related to both a high density urban environment and a lower or working class population. However, due to the strong relationship between class and environment, the individual impacts of these factors could not be untangled. (Author/AM)

The article reports on research into the subject of the location decision-making process for individual vacation home owners. (JD)

As China undertakes substantial planned educational growth, the challenges of university physical plant administration include adaptation of space utilization analysis and planning techniques, improved economies of scale, increased dependence on community support for housing and other services, increased efficiency in construction, more preventive…

Discussion of underground buildings constructed primarily during last two decades for various reasons (energy conservation, density of environment, preservation of landscape and historic buildings) notes advantages, disadvantages, and psychological and design considerations. Examples of underground libraries, built mainly in United States, are…

The George W. Woodruff Physical Education Center was designed to exude openness and space which would encourage participation while preserving existing playing fields and programs. Exterior and interior design of the facility are described. (DF)