ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a longitudinal review of this project in general, as well as a deeper analysis of several selected cases to expose the gaps between the intentions and receptions of the School Construction Systems Development (SCSD) system over time from many perspectives. It also provides a summary of the author's findings from previous research and it is clear that the SCSD was neither cheaper nor quicker to construct. However, the official and unofficial goals of the SCSD project shifted considerably as the project developed. The chapter sheds more light on what Educational Facilities Laboratories (EFL), as a funding agent of the Ford Foundation, hoped to accomplish by supporting the SCSD project. It then provides an internal perspective on how well the SCSD accomplished these goals and explains why the funding for SCSD and other systems-based projects stopped.
