Children and Planning

Children and Planning

By Claire Freeman and Andrea Cook

£35.00

Publication Date: 15th November 2019

  • Includes an extensive range of international case studies, illustrating good practice
  • Identifies key areas of concern with reference to the built environment and to planning theory and practice

Planning is central to ensuring children and young people live in safe, secure places, that they are included and can be active. There can be few aspects of planners’ work that do not directly impact on children, from designing city centres, to implementing policies that will minimise the environmental effects of industrial practices. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) requires planners to consider children in matters affecting them and affirms that they have the right to be heard on such matters, and there is a consensus that it is important to try and engage c... Read More

Format: Hardcover
103 in stock
  • Includes an extensive range of international case studies, illustrating good practice
  • Identifies key areas of concern with reference to the built environment and to planning theory and practice

Planning is central to ensuring children and young people live in safe, secure places, that they are included and can be active. There can be few aspects of planners’ work that do not directly impact on children, from designing city centres, to implementing policies that will minimise the environmental effects of industrial practices. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) requires planners to consider children in matters affecting them and affirms that they have the right to be heard on such matters, and there is a consensus that it is important to try and engage c... Read More