Beyond the School Fence: Rethinking Urban Schools in the Twenty-first Century

Abstract

Schools have traditionally been black-boxed in urban planning, in Australia and elsewhere. During the twentieth century, the shaping of a “community within a community” that informed liberal educational thought materialised in campus-style schools that were exempted from local planning laws, contributed to sprawl and car dependency, and duplicated facilities provided by local authorities. Advocacy of compact city forms underpinning recent urban policy calls for a rethink by education and planning authorities of how schools engage with their urban surrounds. Focussing on Melbourne, Australia, this article discusses some challenges for the provision of schools and schooling in twenty-first century cities.

在澳大利亚和其他地方，学校一直是城市规划的盲区。整个20 世纪，校园体现着 通才教育的思想，成为“社区中的社区”。它不受地方规划法律的制约，增加了人 口分布的松散性和对汽车的依赖性，并且重复提供地方政府已经提供的设施。近年 来，城市政策强调建设紧凑型城市，因此教育部门和规划部门都需要重新思考学校 如何融入城市环境。本文以澳大利亚墨尔本为例，探讨21 世纪的城市办学与就学 的难题。

Keywords:

• Educational planning
• urban planning
• urban schools
• Melbourne
• Australia