ABSTRACT
This article addresses the conceptualization of urban areas and intends to approach the delineation of possible ideals for future urban development. It focuses on the idea of the renaturalization of the city understood as a process of making it more human-friendly in opposition to the many known factors that dehumanize urban space today. We depart from the assumption that architectural design is always a projection into the future and that children as citizens of the future should somehow be heard in such a process. Children’s vision of urban space emerges from the analysis of 59 collective drawings representing idealized cities executed by about 800 young teenagers and are based on their experiences of living in urban areas. Quantitative data from the analysis of these visual documents allowed us to draw pertinent conclusions to the problem addressed and can now contribute to future urban planning.
