New Design High School A Master Plan for the Seward Park Campus
Year:2010 Location: New York, New York Site: 4.5 Acres in the Lower East Side Manhattan Program:
Residential 1.2 million ft2 Academic facilities 145 000 ft2 Retail 45, 000 ft2
Project Type: Urban Design Client:
New Design High School
Status: Schematic Design
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NEW DESIGN HIGH SCHOOL The connection between good schools and good sustainable neighborhoods is intuitively clear and, for skeptics, the linkage is supported by research. It would seem logical, then, for school systems and community development agencies to work together. By tradition, however, public schools and the various agencies, public and private, that deal with community development have existed in separate silos. Recently, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners have begun to make progress toward integrating community development with educational policy and practice. And a series of reports have been published that show the benefits that can accrue when school reform and neighborhood revitalization go hand in hand.
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In Centennial Place in Atlanta, for example, a new public elementary school was built along with more than 800 new units of housing. Today, the school is one of the city’s best; about 90 percent of its students meet or exceed state standards in reading and math. Cities & Schools (CC&S) a program at UC Berkeley has been pursuing ways to engage schools and students in the urban planning process, and building a framework for systemic change that will help to align community development with school reform. Associates with schools have become selling points for subsidized and market rate housing, where the cost of common amenities and services can be shared.
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New Design High School is taking a deliberate systems approach to addressing the historic disconnect between cities and schools, by showing has an educational program can facilitating development of the SPURA project, by supporting local community social and cultural institutions and by providing a best practice environment for public education in New York City.
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The long term vision of NDHS is to reframe the educational experience so it becomes relevant to all members in the community, not just those in an expanded K-12 program but for urban communities and public education to create integrated and mutually beneficial policies, practices and projects.
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