Children living in sustainable built environments
Subtitle: new urbanisms, new citizens
By: Pia Christensen, Sophie Hadfield-Hill, John Horton and Peter Kraftl
Contributors: Hadfield-Hill, Sophie, author; Horton, John (Senior lecturer in geography), author; Kraftl, Peter, author
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781315750019
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: City children; Sustainable urban development; Urban Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Sociology; Urban
Description: "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 Sustainable Built Environments offers a critical analysis of the challenges, tensions and opportunities for children and young people living in these environments. Drawing upon original data, Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments demonstrates how the needs, interests and participation of children and young people often remain inferior to the design, planning and local politics of new urban communities. Considering children from their crucial role as residents engaging and contributing to the vitalities of their community, to their role as consumers using and understanding sustainable design features, the book critically discusses the prospects of future inclusion of children and young people as a social group in sustainable urbanism. Truly interdisciplinary, Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments forms an original theoretical and empirical contribution to the understanding of the everyday lives of children and young people and will appeal to academics and students in the fields of education, childhood studies, sociology, anthropology, human geography and urban studies, as well as policy-makers, architects, urban planners and other professionals working on sustainable urban designs."--Provided by publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: new urbanisms, new citizens; title: Towards the interdisciplinary study of children and sustainable urbanism; title: Sustainable urbanisms in policy and practice; title: Living with sustainable urban technologies; title: Sustainable mobilities; title: Constituting communities: welcoming, belonging, excluding; title: Vital politics: children and young people's participation in public space and local decision-making; title: Making space for vitality in sustainable urbanisms: childhood and play; title: Conclusion: towards a theory of children and sustainable urban vitalities.