Rights-based policies, processes, and solutions for community public spaces, social integration, and recreational facilities for urban children in poverty

Sudeshna Chatterjee and Anupama Nallari

Chapter 23 in Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality, 2025, pp 386-408 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Government policies at national, state, provincial, metropolitan, and municipal levels are critical to how public spaces are defined, used, protected, planned, designed, and managed. But what role do policies play in shaping community public spaces and social and recreational facilities for children within precarious urban settings, including slums and informal settlements, to cater to children's developmental needs and right to play where every bit of common space is shared and has multi-layered functions? What do successful spaces for children look like within urban poor settlements, and what are the processes shaping them? This chapter will draw on case studies developed by the authors in developing the UN system-wide principles and guidance for public spaces for children to answer these questions.

Keywords: Community public spaces; Slums; Informal settlements; Children in poverty; Global South; Process; Solutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802200423
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