The volume provides an overview of recent research (within geography and allied disciplines) around the overarching concept of safe and accessible places of encounter . It develops according to three interrelated themes. The first part of the volume examines several of the many spaces children use and that are relevant to the geographies of children and young people including: the city centre and inner city high rise housing, urban versus suburban and rural spaces, local neighbourhoods, the home (for particular groups of children and young people such as child domestic workers in...