1st Edition
Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments New Urbanisms, New Citizens
230 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
230 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
230 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Urban living has dramatically changed over the past generation, refashioning children’s relationships with the towns and cities in which they live, and the modes of living within them. Focusing on the global shift in urban planning towards sustainable urbanism - from master planned ‘sustainable communities’, to the green retrofitting of existing urban environments - Children Living in... Read more
Introduction: New Urbanisms, New Citizens Chapter 1: Towards the interdisciplinary study of children and sustainable urbanism Chapter 2: Sustainable urbanisms in policy and practice Chapter 3: Living with sustainable urban technologies Chapter 4: Sustainable mobilities Chapter 5: Constituting Communities: welcoming, belonging, excluding Chapter 6: Vital Politics: children and young people’s participation in public space and local decision-making Chapter 7: Making space for vitality in sustainable urbanisms: childhood and play Chapter 8: Conclusion: towards a theory of children and sustainable urban vitalities
Biography
Pia Christensen is Professor of Anthropology and Childhood Studies, University of Leeds, UK.
Sophie Hadfield-Hill is Lecturer of Human Geography, University of Birmingham, UK.
John Horton is Associate Professor of Human Geography, University of Northampton, UK.
Peter Kraftl is Professor of Human Geography, University of Birmingham, UK.
