Children in the City: Home Neighbourhood and Community

ISBN-13: 9780415259255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 232 str.

P. Christensen; Pia Christensen; Margaret O'Brien

Opis

This timely and thought-provoking book explores children's lives in modern cities. At a time of intense debate about the quality of life in cities, this book examines how they can become good places for children to live in. Through contributions from childhood experts in Europe, Australia and America, the book shows the importance of studying children's lives in cities in a comparative and generational perspective. It also contains fascinating accounts of city living from children themselves, and offers practical design solutions.
The authors consider the importance of the city as a social, material and cultural place for children, and explore the connections and boundaries between home, neighbourhood, community and city. Throughout, they stress the importance of engaging with how children see their city in order to reform it within a child-sensitive framework.
This book is invaluable reading for students and academics in the field of anthropology, sociology, social policy and education. It will also be of interest to those working in the field of architecture, urban planning and design.

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