Fremont and Newark, California, are located in one of the most rapidly growing metropolitan areas in the United States. To help cope with growth problems, a feasibility study of cooperative planning (including all jurisdictions providing public services to this area) was conducted. Information was gathered, analyzed, and presented to people in the…

This is one of a series of units for environmental education developed by the Highline Public Schools. The unit is designed for use by junior high school social studies students. Emphasis of the unit is on planning and conducting an environmental assessment of your local community. The unit contains ten lessons as well as supplementary printed…

This teaching guide develops a unit on community planning for the high school student. The format allows the student to make selected decisions in areas of geography, economics, history, and politics that form a base for the student to build a model of his own city as it is, and how the student would like to see it. Included is a vocabulary list,…

This report, written as part of Phase II of PROJECT DESIGN, an ESEA Title III project administered by the Fresno City Unified School District, contains an analysis of the factors that must be considered in locating new school sites for the Fresno district as well as the principles and standards related to community planning and school site…

This report summarizes chronologically a three-year ESEA Title III project to study the types of schools needed for the future. The major recommendation of the study was that an educational park should be established in the downtown area to provide enriched opportunities for pupils from widely different backgrounds and to serve as an experimental…