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Independent mobility
Opportunities for children to move around outdoors on their own, without adults present, have drastically decreased in Western cities over the last century. Children now spend much more time in structured leisure activities and indoors in front of computer screens, and much less time playing outside in the yards and streets.
Child-friendly streets
Child-friendly streets are an important component in creating cities that promote children’s well-being, health and development. By redesigning streets and roads to take children’s needs into account, cities can create caring and playful environments where children can move and explore freely. Read about play streets, play networks, safe routes to school, dispersed play opportunities and principles for designing child-friendly streets.
Child-friendly cities around the world
At a time of increasing urbanisation and rapid urban growth, it is becoming more and more important to create environments that are suitable for all residents, including the very young. Child-friendly cities aim to create places where children’s needs and rights are prioritised.
About child involvement & dialogue methodology
We adults often think we know what children like. Actually asking them seems like a waste of time. Of course, some guesses can be made. At Gatulabba, we’ve been working with children for some time and we know that, well, around 99 per cent of the younger children we meet like rainbows. But when adults create something for them based on that knowledge, it tends to become a rainbow slide… that looks like a rainbow. Children, on the other hand, like the unexpected and imaginative. They combine the rainbow with the sun, and suddenly the sun has rainbow colours. We seem to have trouble reaching that height of imagination on our own.
library & references
In the library, we have collected literature that inspires child involvement and a more child-friendly city. It also contains references used in developing our methods.
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