Urban Playground: How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities

ISBN-13: 9781859469293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str.

Tim Gill

Opis

This book reveals how seeing cities through the eyes of children strengthens the case for planning and transportation policies that work for people of all ages, and for the planet. It shows how urban designers and city planners can incorporate child friendly insights and ideas into their masterplans, public spaces and streetscapes.

Spis treści

1. Urban Planning and Children 2. What is Child-Friendly Urban Planning and Why Does it Matter? 3. Transforming A Failing City 4. Child-Friendly Cities Around the World 5. Making it Happen: Principles, Building Blocks and Tools 6. What Next?

O autorze

Tim Gill is an independent scholar and consultant based in London whose work focuses on children’s play, free time and planning. He is former director of the Children’s Play Council (now Play England) and a Built Environment Enabler for the Design Council. The New York Times described his 2007 book No Fear: Growing Up in a Risk-Averse Society as “a handbook for the movement for freer, riskier play".