Creating Better Cities With Children And Youth

Author : David Driskell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : David Driskell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474691580

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Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth by David Driskell Pdf

Author : Kate Bishop,Linda Corkery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Victoria Derr,Louise Chawla,Mara Mintzer
Publisher : New Village Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781613321027

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Placemaking with Children and Youth by Victoria Derr,Louise Chawla,Mara Mintzer Pdf

An illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban design From a history of children’s rights to case studies discussing international initiatives that aim to create child-friendly cities, Placemaking with Children and Youth offers comprehensive guidance in how to engage children and youth in the planning and design of local environments. It explains the importance of children’s active participation in their societies and presents ways to bring all generations together to plan cities with a high quality of life for people of all ages. Not only does it delineate best practices in establishing programs and partnerships, it also provides principles for working ethically with children, youth, and families, paying particular attention to the inclusion of marginalized populations. Drawing on case studies from around the world—in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Puerto Rico, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States—Placemaking with Children and Youth showcases children’s global participation in community design and illustrates how a variety of methods can be combined in initiatives to achieve meaningful change. The book features more than 200 visuals and detailed, thoughtful guidelines for facilitating a multiplicity of participatory processes that include drawing, photography, interviews, surveys, discussion groups, role playing, mapping, murals, model making, city tours, and much more. Whether seeking information on individual methods and project planning, interpreting and analyzing results, or establishing and evaluating a sustained program, readers can find practical ideas and inspiration from six continents to connect learning to the realities of students’ lives and to create better cities for all ages.

Author : Tim Gill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Meredith Glaser
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 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.

Author : Louise Chawla,Unesco,Unesco. Management of Social Transformations Program
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1853838284

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Growing Up in an Urbanising World by Louise Chawla,Unesco,Unesco. Management of Social Transformations Program Pdf

Half the world's children live in cities and the proportion is growing. Their environment critically determines their futures and the world they will make as adults. This text, by an interdisciplinary team of international child-environment authorities, explores how crucial the relationship of the young and their surroundings is. Covering eight countries, it shows the enormous benefits - for them, for the wider society and for the future - of involving children, especially from underprivileged communities, in planning and implementing urban improvements. It continues and updates Kevin Leech's pioneering 1970s MIT project, Growing Up in Cities.

Author : Kate Bishop,Linda Corkery
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Brendan Gleeson,Neil Sipe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Kathrin Horschelmann,Lorraine van Blerk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Sue Nichols,Stephen Dobson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811081002

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Learning Cities by Sue Nichols,Stephen Dobson Pdf

This book is an interdisciplinary text exploring the learning and educative potentials of cities and their spaces, including urban and suburban contexts, at all stages of life. Drawing on the insights of researchers from diverse fields, such as education, architecture, history, visual sociology, applied linguistics and sensory studies, this collection of papers develops and demonstrates the connection between experience, in all its dimensions, and informal learning in the city. The chapters discuss various sensory domains of experience, considering visual, embodied, and even sexual dimensions in relation to what and how learning operates, and the contributors reflect on their learning and inquiring experiences in the city, with special reference to topics such as narrativity, ‘race’ and ethnicity, equity, urban literacy, re-generation, participation, representation and oral histories.

Author : Louise Chawla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134901135

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Growing Up in an Urbanizing World by Louise Chawla Pdf

Half the world's children live in cities and the proportion is growing. Their environment critically determines their futures and the world they will make as adults. This text, by an interdisciplinary team of international child-environment authorities, explores how crucial the relationship of the young and their surroundings is. Covering eight countries, it shows the enormous benefits - for them, for the wider society and for the future - of involving children, especially from underprivileged communities, in planning and implementing urban improvements. It continues and updates Kevin Leech's pioneering 1970s MIT project, Growing Up in Cities.

Author : Deborah L. McKoy,Amanda Eppley,Shirl Buss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000467055

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Planning Cities With Young People and Schools by Deborah L. McKoy,Amanda Eppley,Shirl Buss Pdf

Offering the overlooked but essential viewpoint of young people from low-income communities of color and their public schools, Planning Cities With Young People and Schools offers an urgently needed set of best-practice recommendations for urban planners to change the status quo and reimagine the future of our cities for and with young people. Working with more than 10,000 students over two decades from the San Francisco Bay Area, to New York, to Tohoku, Japan, this work produces a wealth of insights on issues ranging from environmental planning, housing, transportation, regional planning, and urban education. Part I presents a theory of change for planning more equitable, youth-friendly cities by cultivating intergenerational communities of practice where young people work alongside city planners and adult professionals. Part II explores youth engagement in resilience, housing, and transportation planning through an analysis of literature and international examples of engaging children and youth in city planning. Part III speaks directly to practitioners, scholars, and students alike, presenting "Six Essentials for Planning Just and Joyful Cities" as necessary precursors to effective city planning with and for our most marginalized, children, youth, and public schools. For academics, policy makers, and practitioners, this book raises the importance of education systems and young people as critical to urban planning and the future of our cities.

Author : Rachel Berman,Patrizia Albanese,Xiaobei Chen
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781801174466

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Sociological Research and Urban Children and Youth by Rachel Berman,Patrizia Albanese,Xiaobei Chen Pdf

Recognizing the potential research with and about young people can have in decision making on multiple levels of policy and service provision, this book provides a key foundation for considering the influence of urban environments on young people, and vice versa.

Author : Chhabra, Susheel
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466600485

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ICTs for Advancing Rural Communities and Human Development: Addressing the Digital Divide by Chhabra, Susheel Pdf

"This book reviews the important impact ICTs have on economic, social, and political development and provides analyses of ICTs for education, commerce, and governance"--Provided by publisher.