Alternative Learning Environments

Professor of Architecture emeritus Gary J. Coates has long been recognized nationally and internationally as a leading voice in the movement to create socially, technologically and ecologically sustainable buildings, towns, cities and bioregions. Coates’ contributions have been recognized with numerous awards. At Kansas State University, where he taught for 45 years, Coates was selected as the inaugural Victor L. Regnier Distinguished Faculty Chair. He has received national awards from the American Institute of Architecture (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) for his innovative courses on sustainable and regenerative design. Coates was chosen as an ACSA Distinguished Professor of Architecture for a lifetime of "sustained creative achievement" through teaching, research, scholarship and service. Professionally, Coates has consulted on town planning and architectural design projects, and collaborated with colleagues to help create a number of international professional organizations including: the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA); the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU); the Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE) and; the Architecture, Culture and Spirituality Forum (ACSF).

Part 1: Environmental Awareness: Educating for Design 1. The Need for Environmental Education Mark Terry 2. Space Place Stanley Madeja 3. Planning for Change: Neighbourhood Design and Urban Politics in the Public Schools Richard Hatch 4. The City Building Educational Program: A Decision-Making Approach to Education Doreen Nelson 5. Architecture: A Course of Study for High School Student Robert Lloyd 6. A Room Planned by Children Luther W. Pfluger and Jessie M. ZolaPart 2: Environmental Action: Designing for Education. Alternative Schools Gary J. Coates 1. Accommodating the Education Revolution John Beynon 2. Why/How to Build School Buildings Gian Carlo de Carlo 3. Children, Schools and Utopias George von Hilsheimer 4. The Hard-Soft School Anthony Barton 5. Interview with Topper Carew (excerpted and arranged) 6. MOBOC: A Mobile Learning Environment Charles W. Rusch 7. Liberated Zone: An Evolving Learning Space Robert Goodman 8. An Alternative Strategy for Planning an Alternative School Henry Sanoff and George Barbour 9. Innovation in the Philadelphia School System Lawrence Goldfarb, Peter Brown and Thomas Gallagher Outdoor Play-Learning Environments Gary J. Coates 10. Adventure Playgrounds Clare C. Cooper 11. The Political Collapse of a Playground Mayer Spivack 11. The Theory of Loose Parts Simon Nicholson 12. Open Space Learning Place Robin Moore The City as an Open Learning Environment 13. Freeing Educational Resources Everett Reimer 14. Learning in the City Leonard B. Finkelstein and Lisa W. Strick 15. Children in Transit: The Open City Project Jim Zien 16. The Educative City Michael Southworth and Susan Southworth 17. Information Ecology and the Design of Learning Environments Richard Allen ChasePart 3: Environmental Evaluation 1. Play: Theory and Research Michael J. Ellis 2. Planning Environments for Young Children: Physical Space Sybil Kritchevsky, Elizabeth Prescott and Lee Walling 3. Designing Play Environments for Children George L. Peterson, Robert L. Bishop and Richard M. Michaels 4. Children’s Play: Design Approaches and Theoretical Issues Asher Derman 5. The Child in the Physical Environment: A Design Problem Anne-Marie Pollowy.