City Of Children

Author : Pia Christensen,Margaret O'Brien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134512645

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Children in the City by Pia Christensen,Margaret O'Brien Pdf

This timely and thought-provoking book explores children's lives in modern cities. At a time of intense debate about the quality of life in cities, this book examines how they can become good places for children to live in. Through contributions from childhood experts in Europe, Australia and America, the book shows the importance of studying children's lives in cities in a comparative and generational perspective. It also contains fascinating accounts of city living from children themselves, and offers practical design solutions. The authors consider the importance of the city as a social, material and cultural place for children, and explore the connections and boundaries between home, neighbourhood, community and city. Throughout, they stress the importance of engaging with how children see their city in order to reform it within a child-sensitive framework. This book is invaluable reading for students and academics in the field of anthropology, sociology, social policy and education. It will also be of interest to those working in the field of architecture, urban planning and design.

Author : Francesco Tonucci
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781622739356

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City of Children by Francesco Tonucci Pdf

The city, born to be a place of meeting and exchange, has for several decades taken as a default model the strong citizen, man, adult and worker, thereby transforming it into a hostile space for the weakest: the elderly, the disabled, the poor and the children. The automobile, the toy of choice for the privileged citizen, is also taken to be the principal 'citizen' of the city, thus endangering the health, aesthetics and mobility of the rest of us. This book proposes a new philosophy of city governance that takes children as the default citizens, with the confidence that a city sensitive to the needs of childhood will be healthier for everybody. This work recovers elements of the 1989 Convention of the Rights of the Child that recognize the full citizenship of children to suggest two principle axioms for optimal city design: the participation of children in city governance and the restitution of their autonomy, which allows them to stay with their friends and play freely. Boys and girls, in this way, represent all those excluded from decisions and power. This book is primarily written for politicians and city managers so that they can take on board the ideas within. Yet it is also important for teachers and parents so that they can respect the rights provided in the convention. City of Children should be made available to students on teacher-training courses, and also to the children who are the book’s true protagonists. At present, more than two hundred cities in Spain, Italy, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Brazil and Costa Rica have joined this project. This book is a translation of “La città dei bambini” and was translated as part of the Bridging Language and Scholarship initiative. The English edition by Vernon Press follows previous editions of this important work in Italian and the four languages of the Spanish nation (Galego, Basque, Catalan and Castilian), French and Portuguese to make available for the first time this important work to a broader international audience.

Author : Marta Gutman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226156156

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A City for Children by Marta Gutman Pdf

American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed the urban fabric of these newly diverse, plural metropolises. In A City for Children, Marta Gutman focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place for children. She introduces us to the women who were determined to mitigate the burdens placed on working-class families by an indifferent industrial capitalist economy. Often without the financial means to build from scratch, women did not tend to conceive of urban land as a blank slate to be wiped clean for development. Instead, Gutman shows how, over and over, women turned private houses in Oakland into orphanages, kindergartens, settlement houses, and day care centers, and in the process built the charitable landscape—a network of places that was critical for the betterment of children, families, and public life. The industrial landscape of Oakland, riddled with the effects of social inequalities and racial prejudices, is not a neutral backdrop in Gutman’s story but an active player. Spanning one hundred years of history, A City for Children provides a compelling model for building urban institutions and demonstrates that children, women, charity, and incremental construction, renovations, alterations, additions, and repurposed structures are central to the understanding of modern cities.

Author : Colin Ward
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031872018

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The Child in the City by Colin Ward Pdf

Author : David Nasaw
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307816627

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Children Of The City by David Nasaw Pdf

The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined—primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams. Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant portrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young.

Author : Padraic Whyte,Keith O'Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135923006

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Children's Literature and New York City by Padraic Whyte,Keith O'Sullivan Pdf

This collection explores the significance of New York City in children’s literature, stressing literary, political, and societal influences on writing for young people from the twentieth century to the present day. Contextualized in light of contemporary critical and cultural theory, the chapters examine the varying ways in which children’s literature has engaged with New York City as a city space, both in terms of (urban) realism and as an ‘idea’, such as the fantasy of the city as a place of opportunity, or other associations. The collection visits not only dominant themes, motifs, and tropes, but also the different narrative methods employed to tell readers about the history, function, physical structure, and conceptualization of New York City, acknowledging the shared or symbiotic relationship between literature and the city: just as literature can give imaginative ‘reality’ to the city, the city has the potential to shape the literary text. This book critically engages with most of the major forms and genres for children/young adults that dialogue with New York City, and considers such authors as Margaret Wise Brown, Felice Holman, E. L. Konigsburg, Maurice Sendak, J. D. Salinger, John Donovan, Shaun Tan, Elizabeth Enright, and Patti Smith.

Author : Per Anders Fogelström
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1932043489

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Children of Their City by Per Anders Fogelström Pdf

Author : Katherine Brown Rosier
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 081352797X

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Mothering Inner-city Children by Katherine Brown Rosier Pdf

Based on three years of interviews and observations with Indianapolis mothers, analyzing the families in their homes, schools and other social settings, this book brings forth the voices of mothers in creating a portrait of low-income African American families rearing children.

Author : Pia Christensen,Margaret O'Brien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134512652

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Children in the City by Pia Christensen,Margaret O'Brien Pdf

This timely and thought-provoking book explores children's lives in modern cities. At a time of intense debate about the quality of life in cities, this book examines how they can become good places for children to live in. Through contributions from childhood experts in Europe, Australia and America, the book shows the importance of studying children's lives in cities in a comparative and generational perspective. It also contains fascinating accounts of city living from children themselves, and offers practical design solutions. The authors consider the importance of the city as a social, material and cultural place for children, and explore the connections and boundaries between home, neighbourhood, community and city. Throughout, they stress the importance of engaging with how children see their city in order to reform it within a child-sensitive framework. This book is invaluable reading for students and academics in the field of anthropology, sociology, social policy and education. It will also be of interest to those working in the field of architecture, urban planning and design.

Author : David Nasaw
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345802972

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Children of the City by David Nasaw Pdf

The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined—primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams. Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant portrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young.

Author : Kathrin Horschelmann,Lorraine van Blerk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134184149

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Children, Youth and the City by Kathrin Horschelmann,Lorraine van Blerk Pdf

Contrasts experiences of growing up in the city.

Author : Raymond Lorenzo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811903007

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Children’s Free Play and Participation in the City by Raymond Lorenzo Pdf

This book presents an interplay of imaginative memoir-telling, action research data and future projection that reminds and inspires experiences academics, researchers, professionals, as well as a wider public to recognize the fundamental importance and the impellent need for more and better work in favour of true political and societal recognition of the needs and rights of children to play freely, to participate, to live fully and enjoy their neighbourhoods and cities, and to imagine and construct alternative futures, together with adults. The book's abundant spoken dialogue is, in effect, storytelling between children (and youth) on their own and with adults (especially the elderly). It conveys an appreciation of children’s special capacities to think critically about their everyday places—and the greater world around them—and to develop solutions (or ‘projects’) for the problems they identify. This book serves an effective catalyst for stimulating rich discussion of the theoretical and practical bases of the many themes, or areas of study, which are treated in the story.

Author : Pia Monrad Christensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 020328271X

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Children in the City by Pia Monrad Christensen Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Kindergarten
ISBN : SRLF:A0006411557

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Child-garden of Story, Song and Play by Anonim Pdf

Author : New York (State). Department of Social Welfare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Charities
ISBN : UOM:39015023154720

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Report by New York (State). Department of Social Welfare Pdf

Reports for 1943-1966 include report of the New York State Board of Social Welfare.