Topic: Urban95

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Five key ‘takeaways’ from Urban95 Festival

Urban communities must themselves demand baby and toddler-friendly cities to help make them a reality, says the Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF). That’s just one of five key ‘takeaways’ from the foundation’s recent Urban95 Festival, which...Read more

24-03-2020|Comment|author: Simon Weedy

Experience Tel Aviv ‘through a child’s eyes’

Tel Aviv is the latest city to be shown ‘through the eyes of a child’ thanks to the Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF). The foundation’s Urban95 project has showcased several Young Explorers films made by New...Read more

21-02-2020|Comment|author: Simon Weedy

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

04-02-2020|Comment|author: Simon Weedy

Playing in the City event, in Rabin Square, Photo: By Shani Halevy, via https://bernardvanleer.org/

How children’s global city living experiences can help other parents

A new report highlighting global examples of how city living affects children has been designed to help parents in the Israeli city region of Tel Aviv-Yafo. The International Step by Step Association (ISSA), which promotes child development, has...Read more

10-09-2018|Comment|author: Simon Weedy

Aerial_view_of_Master_Canteen_square,_Bhubaneswar: By Government of Odisha (Official Facebook page of Naveen Patnaik) [CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Bhubaneswar joins Urban95 child-friendly city movement

Bhubaneswar in India is aiming to be the country’s first official ‘child-friendly city’ within the fast-growing Urban95 global network. This east coast city wants to be part of a movement which poses a bold but simple...Read more

31-05-2018|Comment|author: Simon Weedy