Children – Friendly Streets as Urban Playgrounds

Ekawati, Sri Aliah

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.02.413

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“…In Toronto alone, the 2011 census pointed out that 10,000 more families with children and youth lived in high-rise buildings than in 1996 (City of Toronto, 2017). Several scholars contend that contemporary high-rise environments, in their current design, are not particularly welcoming to children's activities and they call to renovate the public realm to improve children's experience through promoting independent mobility, access to parks and community centres, and civic engagement (Dewi, 2012;Whitzman and Mizrachi, 2012;Nethercote and Horne, 2016;Ekawati, 2015).…”

Section: State Of Development Trends In Torontomentioning

confidence: 99%

Vertical children in Toronto

Cinq-Mars¹

2021

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This MRP seeks to explore the availability of public services and facilities designed to assist the needs of children in Toronto. Specifically examining neighbourhoods located in or near the central core consisting of mostly high-rise style housing, developed post-2000. Research is conducted in three parts: a literature review, an exploration of successful child-friendly initiatives from around the world, and a GIS mapping exercise of four new vertical neighbourhoods in Toronto. The mapping exercise found that while an extensive child-friendly infrastructure network does not guarantee a large population of children, a neighbourhood’s lack of this network severely limits its ability to attract new families. The number of children living in a place is often used as a metric to measure success. A neighbourhood with a thriving children and youth population means an inclusive and sustainable neighbourhood for everyone.

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Section: State Of Development Trends In Torontomentioning

confidence: 99%

Vertical children in Toronto

Cinq-Mars¹

2021

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“…Currently, there is increasing attention towards children’s health and safety, as well as their feelings about the urban or architectural environment [ 1 , 2 ]. The visual analysis method is also widely used to evaluate spatial safety.…”

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The Study of Spatial Safety and Social Psychological Health Features of Deaf Children and Children with an Intellectual Disability in the Public School Environment Based on the Visual Access and Exposure (VAE) Model

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Nowadays, there is increasing attention towards the safety and feelings of children in urban or architectural space. In this study, the authors suggest a new approach based on the Visual Access and Exposure (VAE) Model to evaluate the spatial safety and social psychological health features of deaf children and children with an intellectual disability in the public school environment. The authors present a preliminary study of deaf children and children with an intellectual disability in a primary school located in Deyang by measuring the visual exposure and visual access in the public environment. The results illustrate that there are a few spaces, such as a long corridor and the space behind the elevators, that are not very safe for deaf children and children with an intellectual disability. In terms of social psychosocial preference, this special group prefers to stay in low visual access areas, which may be influenced by their introverted and impaired social communication ability. This study could have implications for the existence and optimization of an architecture design for relevant groups. With the increase in school bullying incidents and public psychological health problems related to youth, this approach could be used widely in the area of school safety and public psychological health management.

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“…Municipalities are increasingly creating and restoring green amenities directed toward children and families as an important part of efforts to shift toward more sustainable and healthy cities for all (Woolley 2006;Ekawati 2015;; Kondo et al 2018;Lang and Rothenberg 2017). Yet, these amenities, which serve at once to promote greater contact with nature and 'free' or 'creative' play in cities, are increasingly reduced to universal prescriptions for achieving wellbeing within policy conversations guiding urban growth.…”

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Toward a green and playful city: Understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona

Pulgar

Anguelovski

Connolly

2020

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This paper examines recent urban green amenities directed toward children and families and develops a novel understanding of the ways in which children's socio-natures are made/unmade through such interventions. We employ ethnographic and archival analysis in two new parks -Poble Nou and Nou Barris -in Barcelona to examine how a particular type of children's wellbeing, what we call "relational wellbeing" is shaped through the production of green-playful-child-friendly amenities. We find that planning processes and visions, urban development goals, and neighbourhood sociomaterial structure moderate the effect of green-playful-child-friendly amenities on relational wellbeing by directing how these spaces are used. This finding points toward the importance --for equity concerns --of accounting for the social and political processes that generate relational wellbeing. These processes are often reflective of broader economic agendas of urban transformation designed to extract value, control space, and/or legitimize speculative urban development -while sometimes eroding local socio-material conditions -to the point of producing green spaces of privilege, exclusion and control. The connection between relational wellbeing and green-playful-child-friendly interventions highlights the importance, within the urban environmental equity literature, of reconceptualising pathways of wellbeing and health beyond questions of spatial distribution of natural areas and offers a new perspective for the development of future guidelines on green-playful-child-friendly space policies.

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Children – Friendly Streets as Urban Playgrounds

Cited by 27 publications

References 2 publications

Vertical children in Toronto

Vertical children in Toronto

The Study of Spatial Safety and Social Psychological Health Features of Deaf Children and Children with an Intellectual Disability in the Public School Environment Based on the Visual Access and Exposure (VAE) Model

Toward a green and playful city: Understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona

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