Barnvänliga gaturum i urbana miljöer : sett från ett barnperspektiv och barnets perspektiv
There are many places for children to be in our cities, which are planned and built for them. But in the city’s other public environments, children are marginalized due to conflicts of interest, which can create several negative effects linked to children’s development. Unlike adults, children hav...
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| Formato: | H2 |
| Lenguaje: | sueco Inglés |
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SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)
2022
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| Sumario: | There are many places for children to be in our cities, which are planned and built for them. But in
the city’s other public environments, children are marginalized due to conflicts of interest, which
can create several negative effects linked to children’s development. Unlike adults, children have a
small moving range and therefore their immediate environment becomes important, especially in
the city. Therefore, the studies examine what a child-friendly streetscape means and what needs
should be met based on practitioners’ child perspective and children’s perspectives in order to
increase children’s freedom of independent mobility. The perspectives are examined on the basis
of the city of Malmö. The study contributes with knowledge that must come from child-friendly
environments in a sustainable urban development. It turned out that both perspectives pointed
out that child-friendly streetscape must be safe to stay in, in addition, the practitioners links safety
to security, which is an aspect that the children in the studies do not yet think about to the same
extent. From the children’s perspective, the safe streetscape needs to be fun and exciting, for them
to want to walk in it. No matter how safe the streetscape becomes according to the practitioners’
vision of a child-friendly street, it is not in itself what increases the child’s freedom of movement,
even if safety is an important factor. There is a need for a varied environment with affordances
that can attract children to play and exercise to increase their willingness to be out and about more.
The knowledge that both perspectives are needed when the city’s public environments are planned
needs to be communicated. Then everyone who works in urban development can break the current
planning norm and start looking at the city’s surfaces and its function in new ways. |
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