Rövid leírás:

Designing Cities with Children and Young People focuses on promoting better outcomes in the built environment for children and young people in urban environments. This book aims to cultivate champions for children and young people among urban development professionals, to ensure their rights and needs are fully acknowledged and accommodated. The content moves from how we think about 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.

Hosszú leírás:

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.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Foreword

Introduction

Kate Bishop and Linda Corkery

1. Child Friendly Cities: a model of planning for sustainable development





Karen Malone







2. Children as natural change agents: Child Friendly Cities as Resilient Cities





Victoria Derr, Louise Chawla and Willem van Vliet







3. Nordic child-friendly urban planning reconsidered





Fredrika Martensson and Maria Nordstrom







4. Envisioning urban futures with children in Australia





Linda Corkery




Part 2: Utilizing research with children and young people







5. A place for adolescents: the power of research to inform the built environment





Patsy Eubanks Owens







6. Utilizing research for the benefit of children?s lives in cities: acknowledging barriers and embracing change





Kate Bishop







7. Being ourselves: children and young people sharing urban open spaces





Helen Woolley







8. Children as urban design consultants: a children?s audit of a central city square in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand





Penelope Carroll and Karen Witten




Case Studies: Part 1






Part 3: Instruments with impact: legislation and policy







9. Accommodating children?s activities in the shared spaces of high density and master planned developments





Cathy Sherry







10. Every child matters: policies and politics that influence children?s experience of outdoor environments in England





Helen Woolley







11. How are Child Impact Analyses used in planning child-friendly environments: the Swedish experience





Maria Nordström







12. NSW parliamentary inquiries into children, young people and the built





environment: what are they and how did they come about?




Linda Corkery and Kate Bishop




Part 4: Perspectives from participatory practice with children and young




people









13. Designing with children: a practitioner?s perspective





Fiona Robbé







14. At the ?center?: young people?s involvement in youth centers from design to usage





Katina Dimoulias







15. Engaging children and adolescents in local decision-making: Growing Up Boulder as a practical model





Mara Mintzer and Debra Flanders Cushing







16. Preparing children and young people for participation in planning and design: built environment education in Germany

Angela Million

Conclusion

Kate Bishop and Linda Corkery

Case Studies: Part 2

Index