This document comprises seven manuals that update and supersede a field review edition previously cited under ED 057 751. The first manual, an overview of the complete set, discusses the facilities planning cycle and the possible effects of currently changing instruction techniques on the facilities planning processes. The next four manuals…

Community education involves the use of public school buildings for total service to the community during before-school, after-school, and evening hours, with facilities becoming comprehensive community centers for the continuing education, enrichment, and unity of all the people. (Author/LH)

Properly planned and designed facilities for both athletic and physical education programs, which would allow cooperation, peaceful coexistence, and an effective program for both, provide a challenge for innovative educational planners and architects. (Author/MLF)

Employs cognitive mapping and behavioral mapping strategies in conjunction, using behavioral data to help verify the cognitive mapping findings. Indicates that both observed and reported environmental behavior patterns are directly related to those spatial areas emphasized or excluded in the cognitive maps and to subjective distortions in mapping.…

The author describes the office of today with its word processing equipment and open landscape design, emphasizing cost reductions. In describing "the office of the future" she focuses on design, technology, telecommunications, filing, and procedures. Educational needs for the future office functions are noted. (MF)

A university-based conference center created by recycling an underused facility or building on vacant land can be a profitable business venture. (Author)

Examines the workings of a children's residential treatment environment in order to gain new insight into residential treatment in general. Areas studied include: children's responses to crowding or to isolation; use of open areas; personalization of life space; spatial territoriality; and environmental accommodation. (BF)

Six examples of attempts by colleges and universities to organize a variety of functions into one structure that serves more than one purpose, or houses a variety of disciplines, or is jointly owned and used by many colleges, or houses all facilities of a new college under one roof. (Author/MLF)

Provides a sequence of planning considerations at the University of Notre Dame leading to the decision to construct a "generic" classroom building for use by the entire university. Discusses the building program, determination of its size and mixture of classrooms, and the definition of general purpose "generic" classrooms.…

Describes three areas of concern common to most major research libraries--storage requirements, preservation of library collections, and remote access to library resources--that are adaptable to current developments in computer-based information delivery. Data on University of California's nine-campus library system is cited. Eleven sources are…

The plans for the physical expansion of the University of Witwatersrand cannot be divorced from its goals. In planning a new campus area, there is an underlying philosophy of growth to accommodate all sectors of society and to serve the total community of which the university is part. (MLW)

This article presents a computer program for aiding prediction of how to make maximum use of the physical plant to accommodate the instructional program at a secondary school. It uses Conrad's formula for determining capacity, room needs, and utilization of facilities. The formula, BASIC program, and a sample table are provided. (DCS)

Presents the history, ideal level of utilization, and current reality of six educational facility concepts: openness, space relationships, quantity, quality, suitability, and flexibility. (MLF)

With community cooperation, imagination, and marketing skills, school buildings can be converted to other community uses. Tables summarize recent sales in Delaware. (MLF)

Despite thousands of public building closures in the last decade, many public agencies are renting privately owned space. Interagency use of public facilities is one response to this problem; however, to overcome legal, political, economic, and social barriers, agencies must learn to cooperate and communicate better. (MCG)