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The urban development expert in you and me
Jens Aerts will give his keynote presentation at the Child in the City International Seminar in Antwerp next month. His keynote is titled ‘Shaping a sustainable urban future for and by children’. In this interview,...Read more![IMG-20181002-WA0092 Photo: aProCh](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG-20181002-WA0092-128x128.jpg)
Why play is important in urban development
It is time that we put children at the center of urban planning. That is the opinion of Kirti Zala, Project Head of aProCh a community based initiative in the city of Ahmedabad. In this article, Kirti...Read more![Photo by Claudio Olivares Medina:Flickrcope_bike_IT Photo by Claudio Olivares Medina/Flickr](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Photo-by-Claudio-Olivares-MedinaFlickrcope_bike_IT-128x128.jpg)
Big picture, small cities: why urban development needs national governments
City governments can play a crucial role in reducing national emissions, even amounting to 15 percent of the reductions needed to avoid the most serious levels of climate change. More and more, cities are acting independently...Read more![forsale](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/20120414__boxcity-p1-128x128.jpg)
Box City Event: Children learn urban development
Box City in Denver, Colorado is a free event for children, ages 5 to 12, where participants learn about the process of urban development and the principles that make for sound architecture, design and planning....Read more![DSCN_ (28)](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/DSCN_-28-e1456327648675-128x128.jpg)
3 days conference: Urban Thinker Campus, 2016 and children’s urban rights
The 28 Urban Thinkers’ Campuses, taking place worldwide between June 2015 and February 2016, aim to solicit inputs into the New Urban Agenda – the main outcome document of the Habitat III conference to be...Read more![Kids in classroom](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Kids-in-classroom-128x128.jpg)