Creating Child-Friendly Cities uses empirical material from a range of contexts, although
heavily dominated by Australia and New Zealand, to draw together key themes in relation to …

Creating Child Friendly Cities assesses the extent to which the physical and social make-up
of Western cities accommodates and nourishes the needs of children and young people …

Planners play an important role in shaping the environment. They take responsibility for
guiding and managing the development of cities, and for shaping the future directions of city …

In 1996, the second UN Conference on Human Settlements, widely known as Habitat II,
addressed the pressing global need, in an increasingly urbanized world, for towns and cities …

Urban planners are increasingly aware of the impact on health and well-being that
sustainable environments can create. Jens Aerts' comprehensive book, published by …

This essay reaches into the complex issues of urban growth to ask how we can insert a
better understanding of children's needs and perspectives into the governance, planning …

We began this volume by stating that the creation of child friendly cities is a comprehensive
task that will need to draw from a broad range of specialist knowledge about human …

The headline of a recent Sydney Morning Herald news story referred to" Sydney's own
Manhattan project". The reporter identified nineteen office blocks in the central business …

This chapter summarizes some of the persistent and relevant themes in research on children
in city environments. It explores some of the stumbling blocks in the process of designing …