Ghent’s urban food policy lands a United Nations climate action award
The city of Ghent’s urban food policy, Ghent en Garde, has been honoured with a United Nations Global Climate Action Award.Read more
How do we create child-friendly cities in Saudi Arabia?
Progress is being made on building child-friendly cities in Saudi Arabia after a meeting chaired by Prince Faisal bin Khalid bin Sultan, head of the Northern Borders Region.Read more
Sunshine Coast shows the way to create good design loved by communities
Our collective retreat to the safety of our homes during the COVID-19 lockdown has provoked an awakening to the value of local areas for work, play and connecting.Read more
Nantes’ new speed limits mean child-friendly roads
Baby steps they may be but the introduction of new speed restrictions means the French city of Nantes is today just that little bit more child-friendly than it was yesterday.Read more
UNICEF USA launches first Child Friendly Cities scheme
Houston, San Francisco and Minneapolis are part of the first cohort of cities to officially work towards the USA’s first-ever UNICEF Child Friendly Cities status.Read more
Andalusia welcomes UNICEF Child-Friendly Cities roadshow
A UNICEF regional roadshow to promote its Child Friendly Cities (CFC) programme will hopefully inspire more cities across the southern Spanish state of Andalucia to get on board. The new exhibition showcasing the opinions and input...Read more
Empathy tools for urban leaders and designers
Urban planners are being encouraged to utilise a set of ’empathy tools’ aimed at helping them design child-friendly environments. It’s one of the latest initiatives developed by the Urban95 arm of the Bernard van Leer Foundation...Read more
‘I need nature, I need space’: high-rise families rely on child-friendly neighbourhoods
Children’s living environments in Australian capital cities have changed significantly in the past ten years. This is particularly the case for the growing numbers of families raising children in private, inner-city, high-rise housing. Our study...Read more
Bradford hoping to be UNICEF’s newest Child Friendly City
The city of Bradford is confident of becoming the latest in the UK to gain official UNICEF Child Friendly City and Community status for the region. Gaining this coveted global status would go a long towards...Read more
UNICEF expands child-friendly cities’ handbook
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Child-Friendly Cities and Communities handbook has now been translated into French, Spanish and Chinese. Containing guidance on how to establish a child-friendly cities initiative (CFCI) to help cities do better...Read more
Child Poverty in Western Cities: learning from global approaches
Learning from global experiences will be central to the debate around child poverty when Leeds hosts next week’s Child Poverty in Western Cities seminar. Practitioners, advocates, academics and policymakers concerned with helping create child-friendly cities across...Read more
Outlining a vision of a child-friendly New Orleans
Safety, nature and health are at the forefront of the city of New Orleans’ bold new vision for making itself truly child-friendly. For several months now the city’s Mayor’s Office of Youth and Families (OYF) has...Read more
Child Poverty in Western Cities preview – Q&A with Andy Lloyd, Leeds Children’s Services
Child poverty in western cities is a problem often masked by cities’ wealthier areas and conurbations. One such example is Leeds in northern England, which next month hosts the Child Poverty in Western Cities international...Read more
The rise of Germany’s ‘play streets’
Can play streets help address the problem of dwindling playgrounds in German cities? That’s the hope of planners who want to make the urban landscape truly child-friendly People are moving to the cities but this has...Read more