Children in Cities: The Delicate Issue of Well-Being and Quality of Urban Life

Depeau, Sandrine

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“…O investimento em ações voltadas ao fortalecimento de vínculos, apropriação dos espaços públicos e afetividade na cidade são reconhecidos como capazes de promover bem-estar e qualidade de vida e reduzir as sobrecargas e males urbanos (Angeoleto, 2018;Bonaiuto & Alves, 2012;Perlaviciute & Steg, 2012). Estudos realizados com crianças e idosos focalizam a importância atribuída aos locais de moradia na realização de suas atividades diárias e na manutenção do seu bem-estar, na abrangência que inclui a área interna da casa e seus arredores (Christensen, Carp, Cranz, & Wiley, 1992;Depeau, 2017;Lopez, Felippe, & Kuhnen, 2012;Spencer & Wooley, 2000).…”

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Apropriação dos Espaços Urbanos na Infância e na Velhice em Brasília (DF)

Albuquerque,

Günther

2023

Psicol. cienc. prof.

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Resumo Os estudos sobre as relações mútuas entre as pessoas e o ambiente buscam subsidiar melhorias no contexto urbano a partir de métodos e técnicas pautados na compreensão do uso de espaços públicos e privados. A crescente demanda pela promoção de ambientes amigáveis para idosos e crianças nos cenários urbanos direcionou esta pesquisa e elencou dois componentes: o panorama relativo à população local e o arcabouço teórico da psicologia ambiental. Para tanto, buscou-se identificar as principais atividades realizadas por crianças e idosos em seus respectivos locais de moradia. Foram avaliados os principais usos e atividades desses dois grupos, em duas vizinhanças, diferenciando-os de acordo com suas especificidades em termos de demandas individuais e ambientais. As observações sistemáticas a partir da técnica de mapeamento comportamental centrado no lugar (MCCL) ocorreram na cidade de Brasília, Distrito Federal (DF) e permitiram compreender o processo de apropriação dos espaços na infância e na velhice e suas repercussões em termos da congruência pessoa-ambiente. Cada um destes setores organizados a partir de elementos específicos direciona as ações dos participantes para determinados tipos de comportamentos, observados de maneira a compor um roteiro em que a brincadeira (lazer ativo) surge como central na infância e a caminhada (circulação) como mais potente para a população idosa. Os resultados demonstram que o diálogo entre a psicologia ambiental e a ciência do desenvolvimento humano tem sido bastante profícuo e tem contribuído para a compreensão de aspectos da relação pessoa-ambiente em diferentes momentos do ciclo de vida.

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Apropriação dos Espaços Urbanos na Infância e na Velhice em Brasília (DF)

Albuquerque,

Günther

2023

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“…The transportation literature rarely focuses on young adults: numerous studies in fact concern elderly populations and explore the consequences of driving cessation and of mobility limitations on healthy ageing. Another facet of the literature concerns children's independent mobility and how it relates to health and well-being (Depeau 2017). Young adults remain rarely investigated even though important changes occur towards the end of adolescence and in early adulthood, with the entry into higher education and/or the work force.…”

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Everyday Geography and Service Accessibility: The Contours of Disadvantage in Relation to Mental Health

Vallée

Shareck

Kestens

et al. 2021

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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This paper investigates everyday geography of young adults and the unequal importance which spatial accessibility to a range of urban services may have for their mental health in order to identify those who are 'truly disadvantaged'. While the literature on the socially differentiated vulnerability to place effects has traditionally focused on the neighbourhood of residence, we consider daily activity locations to explore if socially disadvantaged populations are more exposed to ('differential exposure') and/or more affected by ('differential effect') low spatial accessibility to services compared to their more advantaged counterparts. Data came from 1,983 young adults (18-25 years-old) living in Montreal, Canada. We observed that less educated young adults had a lower spatial accessibility to services in their activity space than their more educated counterparts, but also that they were more vulnerable to having lower numbers of services in their surroundings: lower service accessibility in the activity space was associated with poorer mental health among less educated young adults but not among the more educated. We suggest three socio-spatial mechanisms related to (i) place experiences, (ii) flexibility in spatial behaviour and (iii) rules regulating actual access to services to explore why the 'objective' lack of services close to residential and activity locations may represent a greater burden to more socially disadvantaged people.

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Ecological Psychology and Development

Depeau

Pol

2020

The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development

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The child–environment relationship has many aspects worthy of consideration. The environment provides both a framework and a support on which (or thanks to which) human life develops. This relationship between the child and the environment has been interpreted in very different—sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory—ways through the theories of development. To understand and demarcate ecological psychology and development , we must define the concepts necessarily involved, beginning with what we understand by ecological psychology. The ecological approach gives a more central role to “in situ experience” and to the environmental conditions, thereby facilitating the activities that favor the child's development. On one hand, the ecological approach to development has evolved to reinforce the ecological validity of the development processes described and observed experimentally, and, on the other hand, it considers the role and the impact of public policies in actions taken to change social and urban contexts.

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Children in Cities: The Delicate Issue of Well-Being and Quality of Urban Life

Cited by 5 publications

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Apropriação dos Espaços Urbanos na Infância e na Velhice em Brasília (DF)

Apropriação dos Espaços Urbanos na Infância e na Velhice em Brasília (DF)

Everyday Geography and Service Accessibility: The Contours of Disadvantage in Relation to Mental Health

Ecological Psychology and Development

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