ABSTRACT
In the context of an architecture school without a planning degree program, it is difficult for architecture students to be exposed to planning perspectives, perspectives that can enrich projects that the students undertake in design studios engaging with cities facing many challenges: cities like Detroit. This chapter introduces a community design service program housed in an off-campus facility for a local architecture school. The chapter uses an example of a community-based studio to argue that a service learning-based, practical, hands-on, participatory design studio can educate architecture students about planning perspectives that better inform and guide their design projects to support communities.
