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Growing up in an urbanising world / Louise Chawla, editor.
LIBRA HT206 .G75 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City children--Social conditions.
- City children.
- Urban youth--Social conditions.
- Urban youth.
- Poor children--Social conditions.
- Poor children.
- Poor youth--Social conditions.
- Poor youth.
- City planning--Citizen participation.
- City planning.
- Physical Description:
- 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Sterling, Va. : Earthscan ; Paris : UNESCO : Management of Social Transformations, 2002.
- Summary:
- 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 book, 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 Lynch's pioneering 1970s MIT project, Growing Up in Cities.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Cities for Human Development / Louise Chawla 15
- Chapter 2 Argentina: Our Neighbourhood is Like That! / Nilda Cosco, Robin Moore 35
- Chapter 3 United Kingdom: Contested Worlds / Barry Percy-Smith 57
- Chapter 4 Australia: Australian Youth / Karen Malone, Lindsay Hasluck 81
- Chapter 5 South Africa: Children in a South African Squatter Camp Gain and Lose a Voice / Jill Swart-Kruger 111
- Chapter 6 India: Tales from Truth Town / Kanchan Bannerjee, David Driskell 135
- Chapter 7 Norway: Large but Not Unlimited Freedom in a Nordic City / Hanne Wilhjelm 161
- Chapter 8 United States: Between Fences / Ilaria Salvadori 183
- Chapter 9 Poland: Adapting During a Time of Great Change / Piotr-Olaf Zylicz 201
- Chapter 10 Conclusion: Toward Better Cities for Children and Youth / Louise Chawla 219
- Appendix Research Guidelines 243.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Published in association with UNESCO.
- ISBN:
- 1853838276
- 1853838284
- 9231038176
- OCLC:
- 47776281
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