Cities With Children

Author : Sheridan Bartlett,Roger Hart,David Satterthwaite,Ximena de la Barra,Alfredo Missair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134941452

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Cities for Children by Sheridan Bartlett,Roger Hart,David Satterthwaite,Ximena de la Barra,Alfredo Missair Pdf

Urban authorities and organizations are responsible for providing the basic services that affect the lives of urban children. Cities for Children is intended to help them understand and respond to the rights and requirements of children and adolescents. It looks at the responsibilities that authorities face, and discusses practical measures for meeting their obligations in the context of limited resources and multiple demands. While the book emphasizes the challenges faced by local government, it also contains information that would be useful to any groups working to make urban areas better places for children. Cities for Children begins by introducing the concept, history and content of children's rights and the obligations they create for local authorities. The volume then goes on to look at a variety of contentious issues such as housing, community participation, working children, community health, education and juvenile justice. The final section of the book discusses the challenge of establishing systems of governance that can promote the economic security, social justice and environmental care essential for the realization of children's rights. It follows through the practical implications for the structure, policies and practices of local authorities. Written by the top experts in the field of children's issues, and including a resource section which lists publications and organizations that can provide further information and support, this volume is a must for all involved in planning for, and the protection of, children within the urban environment.

Author : Tim Gill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000222166

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Urban Playground by Tim Gill Pdf

What type of cities do we want our children to grow up in? Car-dominated, noisy, polluted and devoid of nature? Or walkable, welcoming, and green? As the climate crisis and urbanisation escalate, cities urgently need to become more inclusive and sustainable. This book reveals how seeing cities through the eyes of children strengthens the case for planning and transportation policies that work for people of all ages, and for the planet. It shows how urban designers and city planners can incorporate child friendly insights and ideas into their masterplans, public spaces and streetscapes. Healthier children mean happier families, stronger communities, greener neighbourhoods, and an economy focused on the long-term. Make cities better for everyone.

Author : Brendan Gleeson,Neil Sipe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134222285

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Creating Child Friendly Cities by Brendan Gleeson,Neil Sipe Pdf

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Kate Bishop,Linda Corkery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317487753

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Designing Cities with Children and Young People by Kate Bishop,Linda Corkery Pdf

Designing Cities with Children and Young People focuses on promoting better outcomes in the built environment for children and young people in cities across the world. This book presents the experience of practitioners and researchers who actively advocate for and participate with children and youth in planning and designing urban environments. It aims to cultivate champions for children and young people among urban development professionals, to ensure that their rights and needs are fully acknowledged and accommodated. With international and interdisciplinary contributors, this book sets out to build bridges and provide resources for policy makers, social planners, design practitioners and students. The content moves from how we conceptualize children in the built environment, what we have discovered through research, how we frame the task and legislate for it, and how we design for and with children. Designing Cities with Children and Young People ultimately aims to bring about change to planning and design policies and practice for the benefit of children and young people in cities everywhere.

Author : Ann Marie F. Murnaghan,Laura J. Shillington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317167679

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Children, Nature, Cities by Ann Marie F. Murnaghan,Laura J. Shillington Pdf

Why does the way we think about urban children and urban nature matter? This volume explores how dichotomies between nature/culture, rural/urban, and child/adult have structured our understandings about the place of children and nature in the city. By placing children and youth at the center of re-theorising the city as a socio-natural space, the book illustrates how children and youth's relations to and with nature can change adultist perspectives and help create more ecologically and socially just cities. As a key contribution to children's studies, the book engages and enlivens debates in urban political ecology and urban theory, which have not yet treated age as an important axis of difference. With examples from ten localities, the chapters in this volume ask how we can subvert both romanticized and modernist conceptualizations of nature and childhood that conflate innocence and purity with children and nature; the volume asks what happens when we re-invent urban natures with children's needs and perspectives in mind.

Author : Kate Bishop,Linda Corkery
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317487760

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Designing Cities with Children and Young People by Kate Bishop,Linda Corkery Pdf

Designing Cities with Children and Young People focuses on promoting better outcomes in the built environment for children and young people in cities across the world. This book presents the experience of practitioners and researchers who actively advocate for and participate with children and youth in planning and designing urban environments. It aims to cultivate champions for children and young people among urban development professionals, to ensure that their rights and needs are fully acknowledged and accommodated. With international and interdisciplinary contributors, this book sets out to build bridges and provide resources for policy makers, social planners, design practitioners and students. The content moves from how we conceptualize children in the built environment, what we have discovered through research, how we frame the task and legislate for it, and how we design for and with children. Designing Cities with Children and Young People ultimately aims to bring about change to planning and design policies and practice for the benefit of children and young people in cities everywhere.

Author : Claire Freeman,Yolanda van Heezik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317375159

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Children, Nature and Cities by Claire Freeman,Yolanda van Heezik Pdf

That children need nature for health and well-being is widely accepted, but what type of nature? Specifically, what type of nature is not only necessary but realistically available in the complex and rapidly changing worlds that children currently live in? This book examines child-nature definitions through two related concepts: the need for connecting to nature and the processes by which opportunities for such contact can be enhanced. It analyses the available nature from a scientific perspective of habitats, species and environments, together with the role of planning, to identify how children in cities can and do connect with nature. This book challenges the notion of a universal child and childhood by recognizing children’s diverse life worlds and experiences which guide them into different and complex ways of interacting with the natural world. Unfortunately not all children have the freedom to access the nature that is present in the cities where they live. This book addresses the challenge of designing biodiverse cities in which nature is readily accessible to children.

Author : David Driskell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134206452

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Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth by David Driskell Pdf

Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth is a practical manual on how to conceptualize, structure and facilitate the participation of young people in the community development process. It is an important tool for urban planners, municipal officials, community development staff, non-governmental organizations, educators, youth-serving agencies, youth advocates, and others who are involved in the community development process. It offers inspiration to all who believe in the value of community education and empowerment as a fundamental building block of a vibrant and resilient civil society, and those who feel concern for young people and the quality of their lives. The manual's core ideas and methods have been field-tested in a wide range of urban settings in both developing and industrialized cities through the work of the UNESCO Growing Up in Cities project. Case studies from project sites help to demonstrate the methods in action and show how they can be customized to meet local needs. They provide lessons and insights to help ensure a successful project, and highlight the universal applicability and value of young people's participation.

Author : Lonely Planet Kids,Bridget Gleeson,Nicola Williams,Karla Zimmerman,Heather Carswell,Patrick Kinsella,Hugh McNaughtan
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781786576781

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The Cities Book by Lonely Planet Kids,Bridget Gleeson,Nicola Williams,Karla Zimmerman,Heather Carswell,Patrick Kinsella,Hugh McNaughtan Pdf

Take a trip through 86 of the world's greatest cities. A mix of photography, beautiful illustrations and hand drawn maps take readers on an incredible world tour. Each page is packed with facts on city living - from food and festivals to architecture and history. This stunning compendium of cities is the perfect gift for curious kids everywhere.

Author : Brendan Gleeson,Neil Sipe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134222292

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Creating Child Friendly Cities by Brendan Gleeson,Neil Sipe Pdf

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ann Marie F. Murnaghan,Laura J. Shillington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317167686

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Children, Nature, Cities by Ann Marie F. Murnaghan,Laura J. Shillington Pdf

Why does the way we think about urban children and urban nature matter? This volume explores how dichotomies between nature/culture, rural/urban, and child/adult have structured our understandings about the place of children and nature in the city. By placing children and youth at the center of re-theorising the city as a socio-natural space, the book illustrates how children and youth's relations to and with nature can change adultist perspectives and help create more ecologically and socially just cities. As a key contribution to children's studies, the book engages and enlivens debates in urban political ecology and urban theory, which have not yet treated age as an important axis of difference. With examples from ten localities, the chapters in this volume ask how we can subvert both romanticized and modernist conceptualizations of nature and childhood that conflate innocence and purity with children and nature; the volume asks what happens when we re-invent urban natures with children's needs and perspectives in mind.

Author : Dietmar Görlitz,Hans Joachim Harloff,Günter Mey,Jaan Valsiner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110885194

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Children, Cities, and Psychological Theories by Dietmar Görlitz,Hans Joachim Harloff,Günter Mey,Jaan Valsiner Pdf

Author : Marta Gutman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226311289

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A City for Children by Marta Gutman Pdf

We like to say that our cities have been shaped by creative destruction the vast powers of capitalism to remake cities. But Marta Gutman shows that other forces played roles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as cities responded to industrialization and the onset of modernity. Gutman focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings, and most tellingly she reveals the determinative roles of women and charitable institutions. In Oakland, Gutman shows, private houses were often adapted for charity work and the betterment of children, in the process becoming critical sites for public life and for the development of sustainable social environments. Gutman makes a strong argument for the centrality of incremental construction and the power of women-run organizations to our understanding of modern cities. "

Author : Natalia Krysiak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0646820095

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Designing Child-Friendly High Density Neighbourhoods by Natalia Krysiak Pdf

Given the significant benefits of play on children's health, wellbeing and happiness, the design of a new residential community should begin with the question: How can we provide the youngest residents with opportunities to freely play outdoors, walk independently, and feel a sense of belonging and ownership within their communities? This publication, funded by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, explores various design interventions and policies from around the world, which aim to improve liveability for children and their families living in urban environments.

Author : Meredith Glaser
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789059727144

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The City at Eye Level by Meredith Glaser Pdf

Although rarely explored in academic literature, most inhabitants and visitors interact with an urban landscape on a day-to-day basis is on the street level. Storefronts, first floor apartments, and sidewalks are the most immediate and common experience of a city. These "plinths" are the ground floors that negotiate between inside and outside, the public and private spheres. The City at Eye Level qualitatively evaluates plinths by exploring specific examples from all over the world. Over twenty-five experts investigate the design, land use, and road and foot traffic in rigorously researched essays, case studies, and interviews. These pieces are supplemented by over two hundred beautiful color images and engage not only with issues in design, but also the concerns of urban communities. The editors have put together a comprehensive guide for anyone concerned with improving or building plinths, including planners, building owners, property and shop managers, designers, and architects.