Children in the city : home, neighbourhood and community / / edited by Pia Christensen and Margaret O'Brien

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910171014903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeFalmer, 2003
• ISBN: 1-134-51264-3; 1-280-07062-5; 0-203-16723-6; 1-134-51265-1; 0-415-25925-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Collana: Future of childhood series
• Classificazione: 71.35
• Altri autori (Persone): ChristensenPia Monrad; O'BrienMargaret <1954->
• Disciplina: 305.235/091732
• Soggetti: City children; Urban youth; City and town life; Neighborhoods - Psychological aspects; Spatial behavior; Identity (Psychology); Socialization; Quality of life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: New perspectives on children in the city / Pia Christensen and Margaret O'Brien -- Place, space and knowledge : children in the village and the city / Pia Christensen -- Children's views of family, home and house / Gunilla Hallden -- "Displaced" children? risks and opportunities in a Caribbean urban environment / Karen Fog Olwig -- Shaping daily life in urban environments / Helga Zeiher -- Children in the neighbourhood : the neighborhood in the children / Kim Rasmussen and Sren Smidt -- The street as liminal space : the barbed spaces of childhood / Hugh Matthews -- Neighbourhood quality in children's eyes / Louise Chawla and Karen Malone -- Reviving children's neighbourhoods : what do ; children want? / Margaret O'Brien -- Improving the neighbourhood for children : possibilities and limitations of "social capital" discourses / Virginia Morrow -- Planning childhood : children's social participation in the town of adults / Claudio Baraldi.
• Sommario/riassunto: This timely and thought-provoking book explores children's lives in modern cities. At a time of intense debate about the quality of life in cities, this book examines how they can become good places for children to live in. Through contributions from childhood experts in Europe, Australia and America, the book shows the importance of studying children's lives in cities in a comparative and generational perspective. It also contains fascinating accounts of city living from children themselves, and offers practical design solutions.The authors consider the importance of the city as a social,