Is There a Place for Children in the City?

Churchman, Arza

doi:10.1080/13574800306482

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“…Although Major et al (1997) mention that in normal urban streets there appears much stronger correlation between adults and children, it is difficult to accept this in the neighbourhood of Kültür. These findings concur with those identified by Churchman (2003) who states that other parameters should be considered such as traffic, density, safety, and adequate places for children to play, as well as appropriate environmental characteristics that are suitable for outdoor play.…”

Section: Interactionsupporting

confidence: 79%

In-between spaces and social interaction: a morphological analysis of Izmir using space syntax

Can

Heath

2015

J Hous and the Built Environ

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This research tackles the intermediate spaces between buildings and the street, by examining the definition and importance of spatial configuration in relation to urban morphology and social relations. It also analyses how the organisation of in-between space affects social interaction in different urban forms. To understand the complex relations and socio-spatial structure of the city, it is important to use mixed methods. This research utilises various methods to focus on three dissimilar urban morphologies in Izmir, Turkey. Two inner city quarters and one modern housing estate of middle-and high-income groups are compared using space syntax analysis and snapshot observations. These neighbourhoods are selected according to their syntax measures from more integrated to segregated neighbourhoods in the axial analysis. And for a detailed zoomed-in analysis, similar diameter areas are covered for observations. Subsequently, activity patterns are observed at different times of the day, one weekday and one Sunday in three cases. In each neighbourhood, syntactic measures of all selected streets are correlated with these recorded activities. This study reveals that connectivity of streets is important for supplying niches that trigger long-duration activities and social interaction. In modern estates, stationary activities are not correlated strong enough with movement as it is in inner city neighbourhoods. Additionally, in-between spaces increase the frequency of social interaction and co-presence of people particularly in more integrated areas. However, this is only one element in developing sense of community. Further research is needed especially in correlating space syntax with environmental issues, as well as people's behaviour.

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Section: Interactionsupporting

confidence: 79%

In-between spaces and social interaction: a morphological analysis of Izmir using space syntax

Can

Heath

2015

J Hous and the Built Environ

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“…Similarly, Heurlin-Norinder (1997) and Hillman (1996) show that automobile-dependent communities have negative implications for children's safety and health, and limit their use of the streets. Churchman (2003) (2000) and Penn (2005) discuss how, in the absence of regular access to the urban public realm, children are pushed to private play settings where they have little say or control. Loving a place, on the other hand, is often due to the sense of freedom that the place affords.…”

Section: Places In Childhood and Place Attachmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Contraction of the public realm also reduces the potential for meeting strangers, which according to Goffman (1963) is important for formation of social identity. These problems limit children's use of the outdoors (Kytta, 2002;Churchman, 2003), and hence their attachment to places of socialization. Huttenmoser (1995) found that children who live in pedestrianfriendly places are more active than those living in automobile-oriented urban environments.…”

Section: Places In Childhood and Place Attachmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Children's Places: Rural–Urban Comparisons Using Participatory Photography in the Bodrum Peninsula, Turkey

Sancar¹,

Severcan²

2010

Journal of Urban Design

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Urban place-making requires an understanding of experiences and meanings ordinary people associate with common environments-meanings that often go back to their childhoods. This paper investigates how children's place preferences and the attributes of these places differ along a rural-urban continuum. Participatory photography was used with four groups of children (ages 9-11) living in three different municipalities of the Bodrum peninsula, Turkey-a region that has experienced major transformation over the past three decades due to tourism. The research reported here was part of planning and urban design studios during the summers of 2005 -2007, and the results were integrated with the projects and presented to the public. The particular municipalities where the children resided vary in tourism-based urbanization and the associated socioeconomic and environmental characteristics. In all cases, the children valued experiencing nature, being in contact with people and having diversity and freedom in their environments. Although all four of these factors are essential for producing healthy, loved and sustainable communities, it was also observed that as traditional landscapes are replaced by spaces of tourism and consumption, the specific attributes of children's preferred places change, as does the diversity of place types and experiences, and children have less freedom to explore independently. These changes have implications for people's attachment to places and ought to be considered by planners and urban designers as well as public officials who are responsible for guiding redevelopment in areas undergoing rapid change.

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“…Olumlu bir gelişme olması ile birlikte "kentsel mekanın çocuk için daha yaşanılır hale getirilmesi" çabalarının da bu girişiminin bir parçası olması gerekmektedir. Churchman (2003)'in da belirtiği gibi çocuk dostu kent, çocuğun gelecekte kentine sahip çıkan yetişkin bir birey olabilmesi için onun fiziksel ve sosyal gelişi-mini destekleyebilen özelliklere sahip olan kenttir. Kentin, fiziksel anlamda çocukların hoşlanacakları ve kendilerini güvende hissedebilecekleri, oyun eylemlerine olanak sağlayan, sembolik anlamda da kent tasarımı, planlaması ve yetişkin bireylerin davranışları aracılığıy-la çocuklara kendilerinin toplumun diğer bireyleriyle eşit bir parçası olduğu mesajını iletebilen bir yer olması gerekmektedir.…”

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More Livable Urban Space for Children: Practices around the World

Tandoğan¹

2014

Megaron

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Okşan TANDOĞANÇocuğun davranışları, kişilik, zeka gibi özelliklerinden çok içinde bulunduğu mekânlar/fiziksel çevresi tarafından belirlenmektedir. Bu nedenle toplumun bir bireyi olmasında, sosyalleşmesinde ve gelişiminde çocuğun etkileşim içinde olduğu ve fiziksel çevresini oluşturan konut yakın çevresi, okul ve çocuk oyun alanları gibi kentsel mekanlar büyük öneme sahiptir. Çocuğun gelişimindeki önemi doğrultu-sunda fiziksel çevrenin çocuk için daha yaşanılır hale getirilmesi başta Kuzey Avrupa ülkelerinde önem kazanmıştır ve bu ülkelerde çeşitli çalışmalar, projeler ve uygulamalar gerçekleştirilmektedir. Bu çalışmalardan en önde geleni Ço-cuk Dostu kent girişimleridir. Diğer çalışma ve uygulamalar sokak, okul bahçesi, çocuk oyun alanları ve çocuğun okul ve ev arasındaki ulaşımı başlıkları altında incelenebilir. Bu ça-lışmada fiziksel çevrenin çocuk için önemini ortaya koymak ve bu doğrultuda fiziksel çevrenin çocuk için daha yaşanılır kılınması için dünyada yapılmış/yapılmakta olan çalışmalar ve uygulamalar ile ilgili bir literatür çalışması oluşturmak amaçlanmıştır.

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Is There a Place for Children in the City?

Cited by 61 publications

References 29 publications

In-between spaces and social interaction: a morphological analysis of Izmir using space syntax

In-between spaces and social interaction: a morphological analysis of Izmir using space syntax

Children's Places: Rural–Urban Comparisons Using Participatory Photography in the Bodrum Peninsula, Turkey

More Livable Urban Space for Children: Practices around the World

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