ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how principles of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child that underlie Child Friendly Cities (CFC) can contribute to thinking about resilience. It explores how CFC can learn from resilience planning in its consideration of nature and green infrastructure within the city. The chapter examines these relationships through the evolution of one child friendly city project, Growing Up Boulder (GUB), and its recent inclusion of children in resilience planning. In 2015, Boulder became the first city within the Rockefeller Resilient Cities network to engage children and adolescents in its planning efforts. In the GUB projects, one can find several central tenets of CFC that support resilience within cities. These include participation as a process that supports children as agents of change; promotion of social equity; integrated, multilevel, multisectoral approaches to governance; attention to wellness; and a strong value that children place on access to nature.
