The city at eye level for kids

As more and more families are living in cities, the child-friendly city receives growing attention for recognizing the importance of creating safe, liveable, and playful cities for children and their caregivers. The fundamental principle is that “a city good for children, is a city good for all”. The importance of children’s perceptions, their well-being, and their development as future urbanites has led to a vast body of knowledge on how to improve physical design, inclusion, and participation towards use and
comfort in cities. What does a child-friendly city look like? How is it imagined by children? These are leading questions that unify a number of disciplines: sociology, pedagogy, anthropology, psychology,
environmental psychology, geography, architecture, urban planning, and design, and of course child development and child healthcare. The city through the eyes of children often brings about different
ways of looking at the built environment – for instance tempo and visual sight, in addition to manners to play, learn, reach, and access. The experience of and challenges for children at various scales (city, neighborhood, streets, parks, playgrounds) underpin the urge for scale adjustment and reinterpretation.
Further, planners, designers, and policy makers in all parts of the world are faced with increased rates of urbanization encompassing the growing numbers of children living in cities. Consequently, in consideration of increasing proportions and varying scopes, the complexity behind comprehending and implementing the measures of a child-friendly city becomes a growing concern. In the recognition of this challenging task, measures should be taken to support practice through creating closer connections with the existent theories and knowledge. The City at Eye Level for Kids is a project initiated as an attempt to narrow the gap between knowledge and practice regarding child-friendly cities. This ambition has led to the development of this book wherein best practices and theoretical underpinnings afford inspiration, insights, and lessons covering a wide range of child-centred topics. This interdisciplinary approach focusing on all children, but with special attention to the age group of young children (0-3), their caregivers, and pregnant women, has been very valuable towards robustly strategizing mechanisms to connect method with expertise.

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