For the past few years, Dr. Moore has been trying to find the time and resources to write a series of books based on our work on child development and the physical designed environment. On his desk are file folders with outlines and partial drafts for three books. The books will be on child care design, case studies, and theory and research (in that sequence). Many of the articles he is currently writing will become chapters of those books.

The three books are tentatively titled as follows:

Child Care by Design: Principles and Patterns for the Design of Developmentally Appropriate Child Care Centers. This book would be based on our now close to 20 years of experience, empirical research, post-occupancy evaluations, case studies, teaching, writing, lecturing, and design consulting on child care centers. Originally we postulated 176 patterns for the good design of child care centers (Recommendations for Chil d Care Centers, a research report issued by the Center for Architecture and Urban Planning Research [CAUPR] in 1979, which has been under such heavy demand that it has been reprinted 10 times and is in its thi rd revised edition, but which has never been published as a book). Over the years, our group has come to believe that somewhere around 16 or 18 of those patterns, plus some new ones, form the core of any well-designed child care building (featured in a v ideo, Child Care by Design, produced in Canada under funding from the former Child Care Initiatives Fund of Health and Welfare Canada). This first book would be structured around those core principles. It would include both general design principles and specific, practical suggestions. It would range from issues of site location and master planning to overall building organization, image, character, "houses," individual spaces, and outdoor activity areas. The book would include text and diagrams on each principle and patt ern, and would be illustrated by photographs taken of innovative child care centers in Scandinavia, continental Europe, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. The book would be intended primarily for architects, landscape architects, and interior designers working on child care centers, as well as child care, Head Start, kindergarten, ECE, and other preschool directors and other personnel commissioning new buildings, renovations, or build-outs of existing space.

Contemporary Child Care Centers: Case Studies of Innovative Child Care Buildings. This book would feature case studies of the most innovative child care designs collected from Scandinavia, continental Europe, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. Each case study would include a description and critical analysis of the building and its associated outdoor activity areas, highlighting major lessons (mainly positive, but s ome negative) that can be transferred to the design of new child care centers, renovations, and build-outs of existing space. Each case study would be illustrated with plans and other drawings, diagrams, and photographs as appropriate to fully describe a nd explain the center and the lessons to be learned from it. The book would also include complete information on location and how to visit each center oneself. This book would be intended primarily for professional design and child care audiences.

Child Development (or Children) and the Physical Environment: Theory, Research, and Design Applications. The third book (they could be done in a different order, though this sequence seems to make the most sense) would focus more on theory and research, but would show the applications of that theory and supporting research to actual design applications. It would be organized around, and incorporate in revised form, some of the papers and chapters that Gary Moore, his colleagues, and students have published over the past 20 years on the topic. It would also include brief excerpts f rom facility programs and schematic designs they have produced through an independent consulting practice. As presently outlined, it would be structured in seven parts: (1) theory, (2) appropriate methodology, (3) child development and play environments, (4) child development and child care environments, (5) translating research into planning and design guidelines, (6) case studies in design application, and (7) conclusions. This book would be intended primarily for an academic audience in developmental and environmental psychology, early childhood education, and architecture and the allied environmental design professions.