Growing up in an urbanising world
By: Louise Chawla, editor.
Contributors: Chawla, Louise.; Unesco.; Unesco. Management of Social Transformations Program.
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: City children -- Social conditions.; Urban youth -- Social conditions.; Poor children -- Social conditions.; Poor youth -- Social conditions.; City planning -- Citizen participation.
Description: "Half the world's children live in cities and the proportion is growing. Their environment critically determines their futures and the world they will make as adults. This text, by an interdisciplinary team of international child-environment authorities, explores how crucial the relationship of the young and their surroundings is. Covering eight countries, it shows the enormous benefits - for them, for the wider society and for the future - of involving children, especially from underprivileged communities, in planning and implementing urban improvements. It continues and updates Kevin Leech's pioneering 1970s MIT project, Growing Up in Cities."-- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Published in association with UNESCO.