ABSTRACT
A wide range of agendas have stressed the importance of constructing new urban spaces that are more than bricks, mortar, materials and infrastructure, actively constituting spaces that addresses the social sustainability of community life. This chapter explores constitution of these qualities of community in practice, mindful of the often complex notion of 'community'. It focuses upon how children were included in the planning of the four case study communities, before examining how children experienced and constituted a sense of welcome and inclusion, and tension and exclusion. The chapter describes how the 'cosmopolitan turn' in urban theory and planning 'celebrates the potential for the forging of new hybrid cultures and ways of living together, but without actually spelling out how this is being, or might be, achieved in practice'. It focuses on two distinct stages of what we would call the process of creating a sense of community, which refers to as the different stages of welcoming people and feeling welcomed.
