ABSTRACT
The workshop will be a market place of information and ideas for students seeking to create through research, design and action, a viable city-wide habitat for children. It will focus on the public and semi-public space of the city as an actual and potential play and learning place. Some children, and mothers, have been inadequately considered as users of the public outdoors because cities are designed and managed by male adults. Children spend much of their everyday life in inappropriate surroundings. Often traffic dangers cut them off from the diversity of the city. The play and learning process that children engage in every waking moment is a continuous process in space and time involving all aspects of the social and physical environment. Value systems need to be examined and new kinds of training developed for environmental teachers, environmental managers, and play leaders who can be unobtrusive.
