Children’s Views on Child-friendly Environments in Different Geographical, Cultural and Social Neighbourhoods

Maria Nordström
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Maria Nordström: Geo Science Centre, University of Stockholm, Stockholm 106 91, Sweden, maria.nordstrom@humangeo.su.se

Urban Studies, 2010, vol. 47, issue 3, 514-528

Abstract: The aim of this study was to determine how the dimensions in a theoretical framework for environmental child-friendliness developed by Horelli apply to responses about child-friendly environments from 12-year-old children living in geographically, culturally and socially different urban neighbourhoods. Children’s written responses to the question of what they find to be a child-friendly city have been analysed according to these dimensions. The results show that three of the dimensions in particular apply to the children’s responses: ‘safety and security’, ‘urban and environmental qualities’ and ‘basic services’. However, other dimensions of that framework, containing more abstract phenomena, do not seem to apply to these children’s environmental experiences. A child-friendly perspective on cities, with children’s age in mind, seems to involve a local perspective on environment, a result that indicates a need for change in current city planning practice .

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098009349771

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