Children in the City : Home Neighbourhood and Community

ISBN-13: 9780415259248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 232 str.

P. Christensen; Pia Christensen; Margaret O'Brien

Opis

This work provides a forum for presenting and reflecting on new concepts and findings from research projects on children and urban space, in particular from the ESRC Children 5-16 Research Programme.

Spis treści

1. New Perspectives on Children in the City Pia Christensen and Margaret O'Brien 2. Place, Space and Knowledge: Children in the Village and the City Pia Christensen 3. Children's Views of Family, Home and House Gunilla Hallden 4. 'Displaced' Children? - Risks and Opportunities in a Caribbean Urban Environment Karen Fog Olwig 5. Shaping Daily Life in Urban Environments Helga Zeiher 6. Children in the Neighbourhood - the Neighbourhood in the Children Kim Rasmussen and Soren Smidt 7. The Street as Liminal Space: the Barbed Spaces of Childhood Hugh Matthews 8. Neighbourhood Quality in Children's Eyes Louise Chalwa and Karen Malone 9. Reviving Children's Neighbourhoods: What do Children Want? Margaret O'Brien 10. Improving the Neighbourhood for Children: Possibilities and Limitations of 'Social Capital' Discourses Virginia Morrow 11. Planning Childhood: Children's Social Participation in the Town of Adults Claudio Baraldi

O autorze

Pia Christensen, Margaret O'Brien