School Siting and Healthy Communities Symposium
The Florida State University (FSU) symposium on School Siting & Healthy Communities funded by the FSU DeVoe Moore Center, was held in Tallahassee on Thursday, April 3rd and Friday, April 4th, 2008; it was co-sponsored by the FSU Department of Urban & Regional Planning and Center for Demography & Population Health. The event featured presentations by nine researchers investigating the connections between school building practices and boundary decisions and the creation and maintenance of community environments for health where schools for all are clean, safe, and high quality, where children can walk or bike to school, and where decision-making processes involve multiple agencies and a broad spectrum of citizens. In addition to the participants, the symposium was attended by professionals from the Florida Departments of Transportation, Education, and Health, from the Leon County School District, facilities planners, and FSU faculty and students.
Symposium Presentations:
Trends in School Sitting and Construction
Jeff Vincent, University of California at Berkeley, with Mary Filardo and Ping Sung - Equitable Investment in Public School Infrastructure: Trends and Policy in Florida and California
Mark A. Wyckoff, Michigan State University, with Dr. Soji Adelaja and Melissa Gibson - The Implications of School Location Change on Healthy Communities in a Slow Growth State
Healthy Schools, Healthy Communities
David Salvesen, UNC Chapel Hill - Safe Schools: Identifying Health and Environmental Threats to Children Attending Public Schools
Ellen Shoshkes, Portland State University - Creating Communities of Learning: Urban Schools and Smart Growth
Making the Connection between Healthy Schools and Healthy Communities
Rebecca Miles, Florida State University - School Siting and Healthy Communities: A Conceptual Framework
The Impact of State Growth Management on School Siting and Children's Travel
Noreen McDonald, UNC Chapel Hill - School siting in high growth areas: A comparison of Maryland and northern Virginia
Ruth Steiner, University of Florida - The Impact of School Siting Decisions on the Potential for Children to Walk and Bicycle to School: A Comparison of Historic, Pre-Growth Management, and Post-Growth Management Schools in Four Florida Counties
Determinants of Children's Travel: The Impact of Urban Design and Transportation System Characteristics
Reid Ewing, University of Maryland, with Michael Greenwald and Ming Zhang - School Location and Student Travel: Analysis of Factors Affecting Mode Choice in Three Disparate Metropolitan Areas
School Siting, Local Coordination and Financing: the Florida case
Maria Cahill, University of Florida - School Concurrency