Camstra, R., 1997, Growing up in a changing urban landscape, Van Gorcum, Assen
- Author : Camstra, R.
- Year : 1997
- Publisher : Van Gorcum
- Publisher's Location : Assen
- ISBN : 9023232631
- Pages : 188
- Abstract : This book contains twelve papers to the congress ’Building Identities: Gender Perspectives on Children and Urban Space’. It is on planning aspects of the urban environment for children. For decades both scientist and the public have feeling that the urban environment is not the most suitable environment for a child to grow up in. In fact, the urban environment is seen as a less favourable living environment not just for children but for grownups as well. Because of these developments, the child in the city was rediscovered as well. In recent years, the protection of children living in large cities no longer decreases. In some cities it even increases. Most important for children is the increase in traffic and subsequently decrease of playing space. Authors entered in the database: Hillman, M.: Children, transport and the quality of life; Spek, M. van der & R. Noyom: Children’s freedom of movement in the streets; Kyttä, M.: Children’s independent mobility in urban, small town, and rural environments; Valentine, G.: Gender, children and cultures of parenting; Liden, H.: Growing up in urban Norway: peer culture among 6-12 year old boys and girls in two neighbourhoods; Lieberg, M.: Youth in their local environment; Schendelen, M. van: The identity of the built environment in Dutch cities; Cunningham, C. & M. Jones: A pitch and a swing? An Australian perspective of urban planning and the child; Horelli, L.: Challenges of children’s participation in urban planning; Breitbart, M.M.: Ít takes a child to inspire a village’: Re-visioning and redesigning neighbourhood space with urban youth; Hooghiemstra, E.: Cultural limits? The connection between culture and space in the world of young Turkish and Moroccan girls in the Netherlands; Emmenegger, M.: Everyday life of newly immigrated girls. Situations-places-actions. Extracts from a social-geographical study in Basel (Switzerland).
- Comments : KEYWORDS: children, urban life, quality of life, streets, mobility, playing, ethnic differences, gender; participation, neighbourhoods.