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This creative project examines trends in school planning and design at both the community and site levels. At the community level, two trends have shaped many of the decisions made in school planning: consolidating schools into mega-sized schools and placing schools on the periphery of development. These practices contribute to sprawl, urban disinvestment, racial and social segregation, environmental degradation and educational inequality. Alternatives in school planning such as school renovation and schools as community centers, are examined through case studies.At the site level, schools are typically built on acres of land covered by lawn, sports fields and asphalt parking. Research shows that school grounds can serve as valuable educational resources when designed as learning landscapes. A conceptual master plan for Storer Elementary School in Muncie, Indiana illustrates how a bland school landscape can be transformed into an educational resource to improve learning, environmental quality, safety and health. / Department of Landscape Architecture

The purpose of the study was to analyze the materials used in industry and school plant building in order to determine the types and designs of buildings which will best meet the needs of our schools both today and in the future.

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This paper has been written primarily to emphasize the need of some pattern in school building and planning. The principles and practices herein contained are not complete in all aspects. Many of the specifications have been accepted by authorities specializing in this field. The county in which the writer is employed is about to embark upon a building program. It becomes a most opportune time to carry on a study concerned with the planning and construction of a practical building. Familiarization with accepted practices might well influence thinking of all concerned. To include community participation would establish a closer tie between two groups so dependent upon each other. / "June, 1953." / Typescript. / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Advisor: H. W. Dean, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 60).

Lau Yiu Wing Terry. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2001-2002, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74). / Chapter 1.0 --- INTRODUCTION / Chapter 1.01 --- synopsis / Chapter 1.02 --- background information / Chapter 1.03 --- "what, why,...." / Chapter 3.0 --- CASE STUDIES / Chapter 3.00 --- Research and study / Chapter 3.01 --- Living Pattern / Chapter 3.02 --- Case studies in standard schools / Chapter 3.03 --- School in Shanghai / Chapter 3.04 --- International School in Shanghai / Chapter 3.05 --- School in Japan / Chapter 3.06 --- International School in Hong Kong / Chapter 3.07 --- Local School in Hong Kong / Chapter 3.08 --- School Village / Chapter 3.09 --- "Pros of the idea of ""School Village""" / Chapter 5.0 --- SITE INVESTIGATION / Chapter 5.01 --- Site Analysis Diagrams / Chapter 5.02 --- Air Pollution / Chapter 5.03 --- Population Diagrams / Chapter 5.04 --- Accessibility and Traffic Flow Diagrams / Chapter 5.05 --- Existing Facilities information / Chapter 5.06 --- Existing School Information / Chapter 5.07 --- Conclusion / Chapter 7.0 --- DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT / Chapter 7.01 --- Study Model scheme / Chapter 7.02 --- Site Model Design / Chapter 7.03 --- Final Model Design / Chapter 7.04 --- Design diagrams / Chapter 7.05 --- Architectural consideration / Chapter 7.06 --- Scheme design / Chapter 7.07 --- "Special Study- Bridge Detail, Building Service and Interior" / Chapter 9.0 --- RECORDS INFORMATION / Chapter 9.01 --- Interview / Chapter 9.02 --- Bibliography / Chapter 9.03 --- Presentation Records / Chapter 2.0 --- HYPOTHESIS / Chapter 2.01 --- Purpose of thesis / Chapter 2.02 --- The ideal school environment - A School Village / Chapter 4.0 --- SITE SELECTION / Chapter 4.01 --- Option One 一 Kowloon Tong / Chapter 4.02 --- Option Two 一 Boma Hill / Chapter 4.03 --- Option Three 一 Kwun Tong / Chapter 6.0 --- DESIGN ELEMENTS / Chapter 6.01 --- Land use / Chapter 6.02 --- Planning precepts / Chapter 6.03 --- Design for integration / Chapter 6.04 --- Design strategy / Chapter 6.05 --- Social distance / Chapter 6.06 --- Design program / Chapter 6.07 --- Newspaper cutting / Chapter 8.0 --- PRECEDENT STUDIES AND APPENDIX / Chapter 8.01 --- Bernard Tschumi 一 Pare de la Villette / Chapter 8.02 --- Christian Norberg-Schulz Intentions in Architecture

Schools must have adequate classroom space available in order to educate the growing population of school age students in Florida. School concurrency is one method used to attempt to have seats available in schools as the need arises. Two Florida counties that have attempted to implement school concurrency are presented in a case study format as well as a Nevada county that has taken a different approach to managing the same issue. Through an analysis of documents, interviews and district data, a hypothesized model is tested and modified to present one method of providing adequate classroom space in Florida schools. / by Tracey Miller. / Thesis (Ed.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

This dissertation consists of three essays that explore the interplay between economic shocks and local context. The first chapter studies the role of Korea's unique social fractionalization in explaining a 60% growth in agricultural productivity during the 1970s. Social fractionalization along dimensions like ethnicity or class can stunt economic development. This paper investigates how fractionalization affects a group's ability to respond to economic shocks by studying rural South Korea in the 1970s. Social groups in rural Korea were defined by one dominant characteristic: extended kin network identified by family name. Some villages displayed high homogeneity, with up to 90% of households sharing the same family name. This unique social context offers a reliable measure of social fractionalization that is otherwise difficult to measure. I combine this cross-sectional variation with the time variation in market access created by the construction of a new bridge, the Namhae bridge, in 1973. I find that homogeneous villages displayed higher agricultural investments and productivity growth than heterogeneous villages following the bridge construction. Homogeneous villages capitalized on the opportunities created by the bridge by providing complementary local public goods more effectively than heterogeneous villages. This paper highlights the critical role of social homogeneity in enhancing a community's ability to capitalize on new opportunities in the face of external shocks, such as improved market access. In the second chapter, I investigate the impact of expanding access to education on the quality of pre-existing schools, using India's Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) national secondary school construction program as a case study. I use a difference-in-differences strategy to assess the effects of new school construction on existing schools' enrollment, facilities, and the number of students taking and passing the nationally administered exam at grade ten and twelve. The analysis utilizes school-level data from the Secondary Education Management Information System (SEMIS) database, which tracks all secondary schools in India between 2009 and 2020. I find that while opening new schools increases the number of students taking and passing exams, it does not necessarily lead to improvements in the quality of education, as measured by the proportions of students taking and passing exams. This suggests that constructing new schools alone may not be enough to enhance educational quality through increased competition, and other factors or interventions may be necessary. This paper highlights the potential trade-off between expanding access to education and maintaining the quality of education provided by pre-existing schools. In the third chapter, I empirically test ``learning-by-exporting'' by examining the long-term performance of Indian IT firms after their exposure to the temporary export shock created by the Y2K bug. The Y2K bug was a computer software glitch that misinterpreted the year 2000 as 1900 due to the widespread use of two-digit date representations in computer systems at the time. As the new millennium approached, concerns grew that this programming oversight would lead to widespread system failures and potential global disruptions. This uncertainty prompted extensive efforts to identify and fix potential issues before 2000, resulting in a surge in outsourcing to Indian IT companies. However, by the year 2000, concerns proved to be largely overstated as few major problems materialized. This event represented an unexpected yet short-lived export boom for Indian IT firms. I use two exposure measures: IT firms with a history of exporting before 2000 and the Bartik instrument, which leverages regional variation in IT sector employment share. Overall, I find that exposure to the Y2K export shock had a positive and statistically significant effect on the long-term performance of Indian IT firms, supporting the concept of ``learning-by-exporting.'' Event study analysis shows that firms exposed to the Y2K shock experienced improvements in sales, export share, and total compensation paid to employees. However, the 2SLS results using the Bartik instrument reveal statistically insignificant findings, suggesting a potential weak instrument problem. This highlights the need for more accurate measures of Y2K shock exposure and further exploration of alternative estimation strategies.