Playborhood
Subtitle: turn your neighborhood into a place for play
By: Mike Lanza
Publisher: Free Play Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Menlo Park, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780984929818
Subjects: Play environments; Play; Child rearing; Children; Self-reliance in children
Other titles: Turn your neighborhood into a place for play
Description: In Playborhood : Turn Your Neighborhood Into a Place for Play, you'll find inspiring stories of innovative communities throughout the US and Canada that have successfully created vibrant neighborhood play lives for their children. You'll also get a comprehensive set of step-by-step solutions to change your family and neighborhood cultures, so that your kids can spend less time in front of screens and in adult-supervised activities, and more time engaging in joyful neighborhood play.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-225) and index.
Table of contents: title: What's the problem?. A social problem; title: Children and free time; title: How are neighborhoods solving this problem?. Yale Road : Menlo Park, Calif. : an oasis of play in an affluent suburb; title: Lyman Place : South Bronx, N.Y. : a safe refuge for play in a poor urban neighborhood; title: Share-it Square : Portland, Ore. : an intersection where kids and adults play; title: The waters : Pike Road, Ala. : A new urbanism community with a focus on family; title: The playscape revolution : Iowa City, Iowa : A natural playscape in every yard; title: N Street : Davis, Calif. : A retrofit cohousing community; title: Dibble Avenue : Seattle : Frank the builder builds community; title: Iris Way : Palo Alto, Calif. : a neighborhood summer camp; title: How can I solve this problem?. Move to a potential playborhood; title: Create a neighborhood hangout; title: Keep kids' lives simple; title: Make a village; title: Encourage self-reliance; title: Let them roam with mobile phones.