Children as the Makers of a New Geography
We cannot rely upon the traditional approach of social science which observes children’s live and reports it to policy makes in the hope that they …
Community Development & Planning
Poverty and exclusion among urban children
This Digest addresses the reality of these children. It highlights the chronic poverty and mar- ginalisation they face: many spend their days digging in rubbish …
Building better cities with children and youth
Although in Environment & Urbanization have focused on children, the last issue that dealt exclusively with children’s concerns came out in 1990. This focused primarily …
The Neighborhood Atlas Project: An example of participatory action research in geography education
In this paper I present a model for participatory action research (PAR) in geography education with middle school teachers and students to learn about children’s …
Roger Hart on Colin Ward and Tony Fyson, in First Steps: A Primer on the Geographies of Children’s Youth
After completing a PhD on the geography of children in the mid 1970’s I was looking for a useful way to continue this work. A quietly radical …
Containing children: some lessons on planning for play from New York City
This paper relates the history of playground provision in New York to changing conceptions of childhood, and specifically to a felt need to ’contain’ children …
An historical analysis of young people’s use of public space, parks and playgrounds in New York City
In this paper I present childhood biographies of three people who grew up in or near a public housing development located on the border between …
Block politics
This paper explores how young people have experienced everyday life on ‘the block’ in a racially diverse lower to working class community in New York …
Everyone Counts: Dalit Children and Education
This report describes some Save the Children US programs in Siraha, Nepal, and their effectiveness in improving educational opportunities and success for children in excluded …
An alternative model for responding to children in poverty: the work of the Alliance in Mumbai and other cities
This paper describes the work of the NGO SPARC and its grass roots partners in Mumbai (together known as the Alliance), with particular reference to …
