Suspicious minds: Can features of the local neighbourhood ease parents' fears about stranger danger?

Foster, Sarah; Wood, Lisa; Francis, Jacinta; Knuiman, Matthew; Villanueva, Karen; Giles-Corti, Billie

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2015.02.001

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“…This is unsurprising given higher density housing is frequently located along major arterial roads, which often attract more vehicular traffic and strangers into the local area 70 . Indeed, parent concerns about traffic and strangers are among the highly cited barriers to children's engagement with the outdoors 68,71 .…”

Section: Housing Densitymentioning

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Can the Neighborhood Built Environment Make a Difference in Children's Development? Building the Research Agenda to Create Evidence for Place-Based Children's Policy

Villanueva

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Kvalsvig

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Academic Pediatrics

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Healthy child development is determined by a combination of physical, social, family, individual, and environmental factors. Thus far, the majority of child development research has focused on the influence of individual, family, and school environments and has largely ignored the neighborhood context despite the increasing policy interest. Yet given that neighborhoods are the locations where children spend large periods of time outside of home and school, it is plausible the physical design of neighborhoods (built environment), including access to local amenities, can affect child development. The relatively few studies exploring this relationship support associations between child development and neighborhood destinations, green spaces, interaction with nature, traffic exposure, and housing density. These studies emphasize the need to more deeply understand how child development outcomes might be influenced by the neighborhood built environment. Pursuing this research space is well aligned with the current global movements on livable and child-friendly cities. It has direct public policy impact by informing planning policies across a range of sectors (urban design and planning, transport, public health, and pediatrics) to implement place-based interventions and initiatives that target children's health and development at the community level. We argue for the importance of exploring the effect of the neighborhood built environment on child development as a crucial first step toward informing urban design principles to help reduce developmental vulnerability in children and to set optimal child development trajectories early.

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Section: Housing Densitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Can the Neighborhood Built Environment Make a Difference in Children's Development? Building the Research Agenda to Create Evidence for Place-Based Children's Policy

Villanueva

Badland

Kvalsvig

et al. 2016

Academic Pediatrics

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“…While we do not know whether this assessment differs from how community members would have ordinarily felt about the area, other research has shown that the presence of others in a public place can decrease fear of crime (Jorgensen et al 2012;Maruthaveeran and van den Bosch 2014;Nasar and Jones 1997). Foster et al (2015) note that the benefit of others present in a public space may depend on whether those others are understood as legitimate users of the space. Thus, the dedicated and accessible nature of a PRV may communicate that people are 'supposed to be' where they are and, therefore, bolster perceptions of safety.…”

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Evaluating a Pop-Up Resource Village in West Oakland: Making Connections with Sense of Place and Perceptions of Safety

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Vickerie-Dearman

Gagnon

2020

Int. Journal of Com. WB

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A non-profit organization called Designing Justice+Designing Spaces led the implementation of a pop-up resource village (PRV) to transform an underutilized urban site into a vibrant community space. One aim of the PRV was to affect public safety through site activation while merging access to education, social services, and retail resources that 'popup' in customized mobile units. This case study employed a mixed-methods research approach to examine how community attendees at the first four stages of the PRV's operations, as well as at its formal launch, conceptualized its design in terms of sense of place (SOP), safety, and level of engagement with local businesses and the diverse cultural aspects of West Oakland. Generally, the PRV was understood positively by attendees and community members in the area. Attendees indicated strong place attachment toward the area in which the events were situated, as well as a strong agreement that the PRV enhances relationships in their community, offers residents and visitors a sense of safety, assists local entrepreneurs in growing their businesses, and increases access to social services. Participants also agreed very strongly that a PRV set up regularly in the area would benefit the community of West Oakland. A primary theme of community togetherness came forward in qualitative analyses. Results suggest that those implementing PRVs should work to create or sustain social connection within a community's established culture while supporting local entrepreneurs and artists, engendering a sense of safety, and affording opportunities for education.Keywords Pop-up village . Community-building . Place-making . Neighborhood safety A pop-up resource village (PRV) can be conceptualized as an organized effort to bring together the people, local businesses, and cultural aspects of a particular community.

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“…The environment where playing takes place (guided and unguided play) is also important. On the one hand, this relates to general urban planning: more walkable pedestrian-friendly neighbourhoods can help diminish parental perceptions of danger (Foster, 2015) and thus support children's free play. On the other hand, it concerns school and community infrastructure, including classrooms and playgrounds.…”

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Playful experiences provide us with the opportunity to engage with others and learn in enjoyable ways. Recognising and building on the power of playfulness and play can be a way to support more meaningful educational experiences for all, life-wide and lifelong. Gamification: Increasingly a good business According to Gallup (2017), 85% of employees are not engaged or actively disengaged at work on average worldwide. In this context, corporations seek to make routine production processes more appealing for workers by leveraging the kind of hedonic and challenging experiences found in games (DeWinter, Kocurek and Nichols, 2014, Ferreira et al., 2017). Consequently, 'gamification', a process for enhancing a service with affordances for game-like experiences (Huotari and Hamari, 2012), has received increasing attention since the turn of the decade (White and Briggs, 2012). Figure 1 reflects such growth in relative interest as measured by the number of Google searches for 'gamification'. Note: Numbers on the vertical axis represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. A score of 0 means there was not enough data for this term.

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Suspicious minds: Can features of the local neighbourhood ease parents' fears about stranger danger?

Cited by 34 publications

References 67 publications

Can the Neighborhood Built Environment Make a Difference in Children's Development? Building the Research Agenda to Create Evidence for Place-Based Children's Policy

Can the Neighborhood Built Environment Make a Difference in Children's Development? Building the Research Agenda to Create Evidence for Place-Based Children's Policy

Evaluating a Pop-Up Resource Village in West Oakland: Making Connections with Sense of Place and Perceptions of Safety

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