Word: urbanize
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...Pittsburgh, as in other large urban areas, educators and urban planners have begun to focus attention on the need for relating school construction to the city's other facilities and activities. We propose that Pittsburgh's five Education Centers be located in newly designed urban centers which would constitute an important part of the city's renewal. These urban centers would be linked together by rapid transit and super highways and would share many of the unique resources of the city. But each urban center should be able to serve many of the diverse needs of a substantial segment...
Part of the space in these urban centers should be devoted to the Education Centers recommended in this report. Educational facilities should be planned and constructed simultaneously with other facilities. Such integrated planning will permit more flexible facilities and also should eliminate any tendency to duplicate or to concentrate all schooling activities in one part of the complex...
...will be needed for the Education Centers and fifteen to twenty for the middle schools. And the sites should have a substantial amount of level space for outside physical education activity. The acquisition of sites of these sizes and of this character will be very difficult. In densely populated urban areas -- particularly where topography limits available land as it does in Pittsburgh, it is possible to utilize new construction techniques to provide needed facilities on a minimum of land. Building vertically rather than horizontally, placing athletic fields on roofs, allocating several floors of a high rise structure to athletics, even...
Sites for new educational facilities could be more readily obtained if land acquisition efforts of the Board of Education are coordinated with the efforts of urban renewal and other city agencies. The urban centers and the educational facilities within them should be designed as drawing points for all of the citizens of the five large large districts indicated in the following section of this report. The sites should therefore be selected to create common meeting grounds for the older, traditional neighborhoods. Innovative designing can make available sites in Pittsburgh which will fit these criteria. Parts of the centers...
Whites and Negroes often face strong conflicts when they work with each other. Mrs. Alice Ansara, director of the reading program at the Urban School has advocated that Roxbury high school students make the effort to help themselves by coming out of the ghettos during the summers to take classes at the Urban School's evening study program. This is a controversial move, because many of the more radical leaders feel that students should receive their education in their own neighborhood and from their own people. Carmichael, when he came to lecture at Harvard, said that the brightest Negro students...