Lima, the capital of Peru, has worked with the Bernard van Leer Foundation to transform 12 run-down spaces into attractive, child-friendly spaces for places for caregivers to spend with their youngsters.Read more
It’s been a year since six local government authorities became the USA’s first cohort of UNICEF’s Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) – and started collaborating with young people to identify and implement child rights-based policies...Read more
A new student council set up by the Romanian city of Brasov is kick-starting the municipality’s child-friendly status with UNICEF.
The new council aims to ensure that young people can play an active role in the...Read more
Iran has renewed a partnership agreement with UNICEF to develop and implement the Child-Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) national program.
Isfahan is the first CFCI candidate city, after which the scheme will piloted in 12 cities including...Read more
No parent would ever say ‘this is a great neighbourhood – but I won’t let my child walk to school or play in the local park’. Former Bogotá mayor Enrique Peñalosa grasped this insight when...Read more
Children spend only half as much time playing outside as their parents did. There are several reasons for this. The way we have organised our cities is one of them. How to turn this tide?...Read more
Slowing transport in cities provides immense benefits for the health of people, economies and the planet, so why are we still obsessed with speed? Only by slowing down our cities can we make them more...Read more
Young people in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, are being given an innovative and unique opportunity to help shape the city’s future through a popular gaming platform.Read more
Kidical Mass Cologne (Germany), an organised bicycle ride through the city highlighting and campaigning for child-friendly transport policies has been commended in the European Mobility Week awards 2021.
This demonstration, which was organised under the motto...Read more
Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, is piloting a new initiative to transform lanes and alleyways into child-friendly green spaces that are safe and fun.Read more
Vantaa has been selected by Finland’s UNICEF committee to participate in its Child Friendly Cities Model, and will be supported to make the city’s infrastructure designed with children as a priority.Read more
Imagine, for a moment, what an ideal Baltimore City would look like. Who would it be for? What qualities would it have? With so many deep-set, interconnected challenges in our city it is hard to...Read more
Since its beginning in Sweden in the 1990s, Vision Zero has become a global movement to prevent road fatalities and serious injuries by undertaking a Safe System approach to road safety.Read more
|Comment|author: WRI Center for Sustainable Cities
In an age of climate crisis, unaffordable housing and increasing disparities of wealth, the livability and functionality of our cities are more important than ever. And yet, important voices are missing from urban planning debates...Read more
