“The walk to school is a wonderful moment in the day that provides children a glimpse of living an active lifestyle,” says David Tulloch, a professor of landscape architecture at Rutgers-New Brunswick and co-author of...Read more
Urban beautification campaigns are usually sold to local residents as a way to improve their daily lives. Design elements – from lighting systems to signs, benches, bollards, fountains and planters, and sometimes even surveillance equipment...Read more
Young Japanese children portrayed in a TV show walking the city alone as they do chores shines a light on how the country’s young children are encouraged to be more independent than many of their...Read more
A park bench can be so much more than just a place to sit and wait. Perhaps it has a puzzle built into it, or weights that allow children to make measurements.Read more
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The power of Virtual Reality is being highlighted by children’s campaigners as a way to help people see cities from a toddler’s height – and show how urban design ideas can truly benefit vulnerable children.
The...Read more
Children see the world in a different way to adults, but urban planning policies rarely take this into account. By focusing on adult needs and views, children are often planned out of our public spaces...Read more
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, communities living in cities need cleaner air to breathe and outdoor public space to be social yet physically distanced.Read more
A major new design initiative aims to establish a global baseline for planning urban streets with the needs of children as number one priority.Read more
An architect specialising in the design of child-friendly cities is keen to share some of the best examples of urban living the world has to offer.Read more
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
