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Hickey, Mike E. – 1979
In this age of declining enrollments, alternatives exist to boarding up schools that are no longer being fully utilized. This paper discusses such alternatives by describing the situation in a Minnesota school district. Of the four elementary school buildings closed in St. Louis Park in the past five years, one was sold to a developer, two are…
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Community Centers, Community Education, School Closing
Schomp, Katherine W. – 1980
The Denver (Colorado) Board of Education has taken a number of steps to avoid closing schools. Among these are refiguring school capacities; providing full-time space for programs that do not always function full-time; providing additional private space for related services (psychological, social work, and nursing); expanding instructional…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Building Conversion, Criteria, Declining Enrollment
Download full textPerlman, Daniel H. – 1972
Roosevelt University was founded in Chicago in 1945. Since 1947 the university has occupied the Auditorium Building, which was completed in 1889 and is included in the Historic American Buildings Survey and the National Register of Historic Places. The building has been extensively remodeled and restored and an adjacent dormitory and student union…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Building Conversion, Building Innovation, Campus Planning
PDF pending restorationBrubaker, C. William – 1982
Text and small black and white photographs reproduced in this booklet outline a slide presentation of the significant design directions that influence the character of school facilities. The locations and names of the schools and the architectural firms accompany the pictures. Energy conservation factors are illustrated by schools of passive or…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Building Conversion, Building Innovation, Educational Facilities Design
Hess, Dale E. – 1981
In many communities new arrangements of surplus school space have been made that facilitate use of the space by the people of the districts, encourage government agencies to anticipate and support social transitions where they are necessary, and allow school districts to improve the quality of their programs. This paper is a survey of some of…
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Community Centers, Community Resources, Community Schools
Clarke, Stephen J. – 1974
This conference report is divided into two main sections: one covering the team planning approach to remodeling and constructing school facilities; the other reviewing the idea of deliberate planning for functional school use. A public school superintendent, a sociologist, and four architects shared their experiences with the conference…
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities, Educational Facilities Improvement
