Schools are certainly unique elements that have special requirements – among them safety for student
There is no reason that school campuses have to turn their backs on the city or suburb, and create dead zones in the urban fabric as well as isolated, boring places for students; they can embrace their urban context, and create benefits for both.
Therefore:
Do not isolate school facilities and surround them with dead inactive edges, but weave them into the city fabric, providing stimulation to students and non-students alike. Wherever possible, put buildings on the edges, and where sports fields must go to the edges, build attractive pergolas and other structures to promote walkability. Assure that buildings are attractive at pedestrian scale, and offer interesting window views to surrounding streets.
When …Within Sanctuary zones, place school campuses, distributed according to need...
Then Assure that the school campuses have Walkable Streetscape (p. 93) with well-articulated Place Network (p. 90)...
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