ABSTRACT
Designing Cities with Children and Young People focuses on promoting better outcomes in the built environment for children and young people in cities across the world. This book presents the experience of practitioners and researchers who actively advocate for and participate with children and youth in planning and designing urban environments. It aims to cultivate champions for children and young people among urban development professionals, to ensure that their rights and needs are fully acknowledged and accommodated.
With international and interdisciplinary contributors, this book sets out to build bridges and provide resources for policy makers, social planners, design practitioners and students. The content moves from how we conceptualize children in the built environment, what we have discovered through research, how we frame the task and legislate for it, and how we design for and with children. Designing Cities with Children and Young People ultimately aims to bring about change to planning and design policies and practice for the benefit of children and young people in cities everywhere.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|52 pages
Global and Regional Initiatives with Local Value
part 2|57 pages
Researching with Children and Young People
chapter 6|13 pages
Utilizing research for the benefit of children’s lives in cities
chapter 8|14 pages
Children as urban design consultants
part 3|54 pages
Instruments with Impact
chapter 10|13 pages
Every Child Matters
chapter 12|13 pages
NSW parliamentary inquiries into children, young people and the built environment
part 4|84 pages
Perspectives on Participatory Practices with Children and Young People