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 …

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 …

How can designers and planers better engage children and youth and include their ideas in
urban design? This chapter focuses on the culture of childhood today and the limits it places …

This article highlights a research project entitled, Child-Friendly Cities and Participatory
Planning and Design in Canada. The article describes a graduate course, Child-Friendly …

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 …

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 …

ABSTRACT Child-Friendly Cities were conceived as a means to integrate children's rights
into city decision-making and governance. Participatory research about child-friendly cities …

This chapter outlines the process of the Freyberg Square children's audit/consultation—a
first for Auckland Council—and considers connections between research, policy and …

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 …

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 …