Topic: #urbanplaygrounds

How mid-century Amsterdam built 700 doorstep playgrounds – and then forgot about them

What would a child-friendly city look like? One scenario goes like this: you wake up in the city one morning, there is no traffic, all you can hear are children playing and the occasional dog...Read more

26-05-2023|Comment|author: Guest author

That public playground is good for your kids and your wallet

If you live near a public playground it can be a convenient outdoor destination for short excursions and a life-saving source of pressure relief when the kids are too surly to bear inside the house....Read more

07-01-2020|Comment|author: Robert Breunig

New UK government ‘must reinstate urban playgrounds’

The next government of the United Kingdom must provide ‘urgent and sustained funding’ for public playgrounds to reverse an ‘alarming decline’ in the past few years. That’s the message from the Association of Play Industries (API),...Read more

05-12-2019|Comment|author: Simon Weedy

Exhibition celebrates the history of playgrounds

The historical development of children’s urban playgrounds forms a central part of a fascinating new exhibition in London. Play Well is highlighting the work of – among others – Friedrich Fröbel, the German inventor of the...Read more

05-11-2019|Comment|author: Simon Weedy