Children Make Places
Investigating children, play and the UK public realm
Children’s access to the public realm is currently heavily restricted – as much by physical barriers as by adult attitudes and anxieties. As heavy investment in play provision is currently set to deliver physical improvements, there is a need to address the wider social, cultural and political context in which the children’s public realm is being shaped.
"play"
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- CAPABLE project CAPABLE studies children's behaviour and perceptions in an effort to understand how children currently use the local environment and what can be done to make it easier and safer for them to move about on foot. from : petebradwell 2nd November 2006
- Neighbourhoods: Play and social capital Neighbourhoods: Play and social capital from : petebradwell 8th November 2006
- Let Our Children Roam Free Tim Gill writes about risk and children for the Ecologist from : petebradwell 10th November 2006
- Comment is free: The play's the thing Tim Gill on play and risk from : petebradwell 10th November 2006
- Comment is free: Setting children free TIm Gill on childhood freedoms from : petebradwell 10th November 2006
- Six hours away by ferry - a world apart for children | Society | SocietyGuardian.co.uk Play and valuing children. Hook of Holland compared with Harwich. Why they're best and we're worst. from : tomrichardson 19th February 2007
- BBC - No playground for 'super school' BBC - No playground for 'super school' from : petebradwell 6th May 2007
- No time for play at new flagship school | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk The most expensive state school in Britain will have no playground. The Cambridgeshire authorities in charge of the new £46.4m Thomas Deacon city academy in Peterborough believe a lack of outside space will avoid the danger of 'uncontrollable' groups of children running around at break time. from : tomrichardson 8th May 2007