Considering the Natural Environment in the Creation of Child-Friendly Cities: Implications for Children’s Subjective Well-Being

Adams, Sabirah; Savahl, Shazly; Florence, Maria; Jackson, Kyle

doi:10.1007/s12187-018-9531-x

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“…This cohort represents a much smaller proportion of the population and have historically been afforded access to opportunities and resources. This sub-set of the population typically resides in well-resourced communities characterised by low levels of crime, high employment, access to good municipal services and well-resourced schools (Adams et al, 2019).…”

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Afrikaans adaptation of the children’s hope scale: Validation and measurement invariance

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The overarching aim of this study was to validate the Afrikaans version of Snyder's (1997) Children's Hope Scale in a sample of children from Cape Town, South Africa. Within this process, the study aimed to test the measurement invariance across the English and Afrikaans language versions. The study used a crosssectional survey design, with a two-stage stratified random sample of 1022 children between the ages of 11-to 12-years-old. We selected the participants from 15 schools located in low and middle socio-economic status communities in the Cape Town Metropole. We used confirmatory factor analysis to analyse the data. The results indicated a good fit for the overall model using the pooled sample (X 2 = 35.692; df = 7; p =.00; CFI =.984; RMSEA =.063; SRMR =.023). Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis further demonstrated the tenability of metric and scalar invariance. This indicates that the items on the scale has the same meaning across the two languages, and that the scores on the English and Afrikaans versions of the scale are comparable by correlations, regression coefficients, and means. The overall findings suggest that the Afrikaans translated version of the Children's Hope Scale is an appropriate measure for use in the South African context.

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“…Priorities should be given to the needs of children to develop parks, playgrounds, libraries, and museums that stimulate the creativity and mental abilities of children and enhance their physical development [40]. Child-friendly cities have both built and natural spaces [41][42][43] where children have the fundamental right to play, speak freely [44], and partake in meaningful activities [43] with other children and young people [44][45][46][47]. Children also have access to these natural spaces [36,48] and can independently explore their surrounding environment [49].…”

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“…Relationship between children's activities and their surrounding neighborhood environment [97]; Methods, Tools and Instruments [98]; Risk perception [91]; Environmental friendliness of children's environment [94]; Children's and young people's perception [95]; Design and plan all public urban spaces keeping children in mind [99]; Meanings children attached to natural spaces and their mpact on their subjective well-being [41]; Natural Environment and Child-Friendly Cities [41] As this research target group is children aged 6 to 15 years, to obtain children's views directly, the 'Drawing' method was chosen [100][101][102].…”

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Creating a Child-Friendly Environment: An Interpretation of Children’s Drawings from Planned Neighborhood Parks of Lucknow City

Agarwal¹,

Sehgal

Ogra

2021

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The urban environment is a product of many tangible and intangible factors for communities, involving activities, spaces, and users of different age groups. Stakeholder consultation has become an essential part of envisaging any urban space. In general practice, mostly adults’ opinions and suggestions are taken into account, and children are sidelined, even if the issues are related to children. Children are an integral part of the present urbanizing world and are some of its most sensitive and affected users. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes three P’s: provision, protection, and participation. The third, participation, is a crucial dimension of creating a healthier environment, but it has largely been neglected. The drawing technique is among the methods to gather information directly through the children’s participatory approach. It has been observed that children prefer to express themselves by drawing rather than answering questions and find it easy and enjoyable. This research incorporates drawing as a methodological tool for identifying children’s expectations and understanding their preferences about their ideal neighborhood park. A total of 80 children aged between 6 and 15 years from planned zones of Lucknow city were selected for the research. The results derived from the content and co-relation data analysis techniques highlight that children emphasized physical, perceptional, cognitive, emotional, and social parameters for developing a child-friendly environment in parks and open spaces.

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“…The planning and designing of child-friendly urban spaces hence operate within a paradoxical framework of limiting environmental risks, avoiding issues of liability whilst encouraging children and other underrepresented members of the community to actively contribute towards place-making and inclusion efforts (Loebach & Gilliland, 2019). This paradoxical framework is also reflected in the paucity of CFCs-related studies concerning children's perception of and interaction with their urban spaces in non-Western cities where direct threats of environmental degradation and extreme weather events are often part of the everyday reality (see Adams, et al, 2019;Cilliers & Cornelius, 2019;Ramezani & Said, 2013)…”

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Towards child-friendly mega-delta cities in Asia. A critical literature review

Roy¹,

Chong²

2020

Proceedings of the 56th ISOCARP World Planning Congress

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The ‘reinstatement’ of children within the planning discourse reflects a scholarly and professional recognition of the interdependencies between urban space and critical health issues of specific social groups (Gleeson & Sipe, 2006). This research paper interrogates the international policy concept of child-friendly cities, defined as “any system of local governance committed to fulfilling child rights as articulated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is a city or community where the voices, needs, priorities and rights of children are an integral part of public policies, programmes and decisions” (UNICEF, 2018: 10). It considers the conceptual limitation of the policy concept when children’s ability to survive, grow and thrive are increasingly threatened by extreme weather events and environmental degradation. The research paper looks specifically at the urban challenges faced by mega-delta cities in Asia (e.g. Bangkok, Dhaka, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Kolkata, Shenzhen, Yangon) where children make up a sizeable demographic group. Utilizing the uneven spatial development of Dhaka, Bangladesh (Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta) as case study, the paper explores how the conceptual limitation of CFCs shapes its implementation gaps. Lastly, this research paper considers the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children living in the mega-deltas cities of Asia.

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Considering the Natural Environment in the Creation of Child-Friendly Cities: Implications for Children’s Subjective Well-Being

Cited by 45 publications

References 66 publications

Afrikaans adaptation of the children’s hope scale: Validation and measurement invariance

Afrikaans adaptation of the children’s hope scale: Validation and measurement invariance

Creating a Child-Friendly Environment: An Interpretation of Children’s Drawings from Planned Neighborhood Parks of Lucknow City

Towards child-friendly mega-delta cities in Asia. A critical literature review

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