From the Studio to the Streets - Service Learning in Planning and Architecture

By Mary C. Hardin
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2006-08
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1563771004
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781563771002

Book Description:
Architecture should be the ideal field of study for applying
to service learning since it requires mastery of theoretical
concepts for direct application to human situations and needs.
Though architecture has long fostered learning by doing, it is
only recently that the field’s hands-on aspects have been
subjected to more systematic appraisal. This book is the first
book to make a formal connection between service learning
pedagogy and architectural practice, and to address the related
issues, both professional and ethical. This book looks equally
at the emergence in the sixties of planning departments out of
schools of architecture, and at planning’s shift in orientation
away from “master planning,” elite designers, and signature
buildings to the mainstream acceptance of neighborhood-based
planning and socially engaged practice. This turn has led to far
more widespread adoption of service learning in planning programs.
The chapters in this book illustrate how service learning can be
used to develop a wide range of professional skills in students,
including land use and building condition surveys, zoning analysis,
demographic analysis, cost estimating, public presentation, site
planning, urban design, participatory design processes, public
workshops, and design charrettes as well as measured drawings of
existing buildings. The author demonstrates how community design
programs are more than service activities; and how they can be
models of interdisciplinary teamwork, often involving planners,
urban designers, and landscape architects as well as scholars and
researchers from related fields. The essays in this book offer
insights into both successful initiatives and roadblocks along the
way and address the practicalities of the use of this powerful
pedagogy.

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