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Designing a City of Learning:
Paterson, NJ
Edited by Roy Strickland
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Book Description
Designing a City of Learning presents concepts for using public
school capital projects as tools for revitalizing a post-idustrial American
City. It applies the school design and planning strategy called City of
Learning [COL] to historic Paterson, NJ. COL embraces educators' argument
that healthy neighborhoods support successful learning and makes school
design and programming holistic by looking beyond the school building
to the school setting at the neighborhood, town, and city scales. By doing
so, it identifies schools as a potent new force in urban revitalization
as it explands preK-12 educational options.
Designing a City of Learning
was prepared by the New American School Design Project and was sponsored
by Paterson Public Schools, Dr. Edwin Duroy, State District Superintendent
of Schools.
Book Reviews
"A marriage of ideas to help revive [a] city's schools and the city itself." — Education Week
"Through an ambitious plan called the City of Learning, Paterson, a city of 170,000, is giving [public] school students not only
the tools to understand its urban problems, but also the chance to solve them." — New York Times
About the Author
Roy Strickland is director of the Master of Urban Design Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
where he also directs the New American School Design Project [NASDP]. He began NASDP, a multi-disciplinary design and research project
that correlates the design of school facilities with the discussion of American school reform,
while a member of the faculty of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is former director of the Urban Design Program at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation.
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