ABSTRACT
The accelerating process of urbanization and its consequences for children are placed in the context of social, economic and environmental trends at the beginning of the 21st century. Growing Up in Cities, a project that seeks to understand the urban environment from children’s perspectives, is presented as one means to address international agreements about children’s right to a voice in environmental planning and decision-making. The project’s origins in the advocacy planning movement of the 1970s are described, along with an overview of the results of the project’s 1990s revival with children in low-income urban areas around the world, in industrialised countries of the North and in developing countries of the South.
