ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows how an international turn towards 'sustainable' modes of urban planning and development continues to constitute new types of urban space and new experiences of childhood and youth. It provides the remarkably pervasive, enduring and internationalised concept of sustainable urbanism, which has underpinned so many sites of urban change and expansion. The book examines a recurring constitutive tension between the intended aims of sustainable planning interventions and the ways in which newly built sustainable urban spaces are experienced and lived with in practice. It explains that contemporary academic, policy and popular discourses in Europe and North America have normatively framed children and young people's mobilities in terms of anxieties about immobility, and in terms of individualised 'independent' mobilities. It discusses the intellectual currents of 'new wave' childhood studies effectively constitute a rethinking of assumptions about 'identity'.
