Designing Cities with Children and Young People

Kate Bishop PhD is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales. Her background in environment-behaviour research underpins her teaching, research and her particular area of interest: children, youth and environments. She specializes in the design of environments for children with special needs, pediatric facilities and participatory methodologies with children and young people. Linda Corkery is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Faculty of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales. Her research and teaching focuses on the social dimensions of urban landscapes, including public parklands and open space, urban landscape planning and design, and collaborative design processes. Linda is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects and a member of the Environmental Design Research Association.

Foreword

Introduction

Kate Bishop and Linda Corkery

Part 1: Global and regional initiatives with local value






Child Friendly Cities: a model of planning for sustainable development

Karen Malone

Children as natural change agents: Child Friendly Cities as Resilient Cities
Victoria Derr, Louise Chawla and Willem van Vliet

Nordic child-friendly urban planning reconsidered
Fredrika Martensson and Maria Nordstrom

Envisioning urban futures with children in Australia
Linda Corkery

Part 2: Utilizing research with children and young people

A place for adolescents: the power of research to inform the built environment
Patsy Eubanks Owens

Utilizing research for the benefit of children’s lives in cities: acknowledging barriers and embracing change
Kate Bishop

Being ourselves: children and young people sharing urban open spaces
Helen Woolley

Children as urban design consultants: a children’s audit of a central city square in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Penelope Carroll and Karen Witten

Case Studies: Part 1

Part 3: Instruments with impact: legislation and policy

Accommodating children’s activities in the shared spaces of high density and master planned developments
Cathy Sherry

Every child matters: policies and politics that influence children’s experience of outdoor environments in England
Helen Woolley

How are Child Impact Analyses used in planning child-friendly environments: the Swedish experience
Maria Nordström

NSW parliamentary inquiries into children, young people and the built
environment: what are they and how did they come about?

Linda Corkery and Kate Bishop

Part 4: Perspectives from participatory practice with children and young

people

Designing with children: a practitioner’s perspective
Fiona Robbé

At the ‘center’: young people’s involvement in youth centers from design to usage
Katina Dimoulias

Engaging children and adolescents in local decision-making: Growing Up Boulder as a practical model
Mara Mintzer and Debra Flanders Cushing

Preparing children and young people for participation in planning and design: built environment education in Germany
Angela Million

Conclusion

Kate Bishop and Linda Corkery

Case Studies: Part 2

Index