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Topic: Child Friendly Cities Initiative

What happens when kids help design our cities

An innovative program in Colorado incorporates children’s ideas into city planning for friendlier, greener, and more inclusive spaces. What would cities look like if children had a say in their design? They would certainly be friendlier,...Read more
|Comment|author: Jill Suttie

Child friendly Leeds

Inspired by the UNICEF Child Friendly City initiative, one of England’s biggest cities is committed to becoming also the best in the country for children. Andy Lloyd, of Leeds children’s services department explains how. Leeds is the...Read more
|Comment|author: Adrian Voce

UNICEF launches child friendly city toolkit

UNICEF has launched its toolkit for child friendly cities. Here, Louise Thivant, a policy and advocacy specialist with the agency, describes this new resource and its purpose. UNICEF has launched the Child-Friendly Cities and Communities Initiative...Read more
|Comment|author: Louise Thivant

Child friendly cities benefit us all (part 2)

In this second of his three part article on creating child friendly cities, Sam Williams of Arup argues that managing traffic better and increasing connectivity by other means will benefit the whole population of cities,...Read more
|Comment|author: Samuel Williams

Subjectifying the child friendly city

In his keynote address to Child in the City 2016, in Ghent, social work lecturer and urbanist Sven De Visscher asked the most fundamental question of all for this movement: what is it that makes a city...Read more
|Comment|author: Sven De Visscher