Schools as Community Hubs

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<div><div>This open access book brings together research on the planning, design, governance and management of schools as community hubs-places that support the development of better-connected, more highly integrated, and more resilient communities with education at the centre. It explores opportunities and difficulties associated with bringing schools and communities closer together, with a focus on the facilities needed to accommodate shared experiences that generate social capital and deliver reciprocal benefits.</div><div><br></div><div>This book discusses the expanded roles of schools, and investigates how schools may offer more to their communities-historically, currently and into the future-with respect to the role of the built environment in situating community activities and services.</div><div><br></div><div>Organised around four sections, it showcases important areas of development in the field via an interdisciplinary approach, which weaves together empirical research with