Policy frameworks have a major impact on practice in different areas of society, including the
urban outdoor environments that children use or might use in their daily lives. In England …

This article shares research-in-progress on a project entitled Child-Friendly Cities, and
Participatory Planning and Design in Canada. Proposed is a protocol based on 1 5 factors …

Recent public debates about Australia's children and young people have increasingly
acknowledged the direct impact of urban development on their health and well-being. This …

Discourse about resilient cities includes processes of societal change and adaptation
(Pearson & Pearson 2014) as well as knowledge transfer and exchange between …

First, despite the ground-breaking work of Kevin Lynch (1977), international advocacy by the
Child-Friendly Cities Network (Riggio 2002) and burgeoning multidisciplinary research on …

Previous chapters in this volume have described how various socio-cultural and
environmental changes in modern Western societies, particularly in Australia and New …

Through decades of research, the authors, Derr, Chawla, and Mintzer, present this very
practical guidebook on meaningfully engaging with children and young people to create …

More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in
cities. Here, Horschelmann and van Blerk provide a vivid picture of children and youths in …

This paper reflects on the enduring value of Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of Great
American Cities in the context of child-friendly cities. This is explored through a project in …

High rise housing has become an increasingly popular form of urban development in
Australian capital cities. Yet the effects of high rise residences on children's well-being …