A recent blog by the Canadian urbanist, Jillian Glover identified the ten features she believes are the key to building child-friendly cities. Yet there is a glaring omission from the list: nowhere, even in the...Read more
Research findings reveal that although children, who are actively involved in designing natural playgrounds together with their parents share the same design principles, the design process had to be creative to capture children’s views and to receive valuable input and...Read more
A research shows that the qualtity of urban life suffers when children and youth are excluded from actively participating in creating play areas within the public space and that they should be given the opportunity...Read more
Research suggests that unstructured free play is critical to healthy child development. but there are no guarantees that any play area is truly safe. Therefore, urban planner Oksan Tandogan from Istanbul concluded that Turkish playgrounds...Read more