Overview
- Applies action-research data in a narrative manner, extrapolated from children's participation projects
- Presents detailed examples of children and youth's attention to socio-political contexts
- Includes images of children's works to reinforce
Part of the book series: Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories (CGPPMT)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (8 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
A New Home … Awakening
-
Front Matter
-
-
A New Street … Exploring and Bonding
-
Front Matter
-
-
A New Community: Encountering, Reflecting and Taking Part
-
Front Matter
-
-
A New World: Investigating, Visioning, Engaging and Creating
-
Front Matter
-
-
Back Matter
Keywords
- childhood free play and autonomy
- children and urban exploration
- children and city places
- children and street life
- children's everyday life
- children's participation
- imagining and designing the Future
- children's everyday environment
- sustainability of environment
- children's play and environments
- children and community
- mutual aid
- collaboration in affinity groups
- children's storytelling
- food and commensality
- engineering and everyday environments
- city planning and everyday environments
- Brooklyn contexts
- New York City contexts
- Naples contexts
- Urban Geography and Urbanism
About this book
This book presents an interplay of imaginative memoir-telling, action research data and future projection that reminds and inspires experiences academics, researchers, professionals, as well as a wider public to recognize the fundamental importance and the impellent need for more and better work in favour of true political and societal recognition of the needs and rights of children to play freely, to participate, to live fully and enjoy their neighbourhoods and cities, and to imagine and construct alternative futures, together with adults.
The book's abundant spoken dialogue is, in effect, storytelling between children (and youth) on their own and with adults (especially the elderly). It conveys an appreciation of children’s special capacities to think critically about their everyday places—and the greater world around them—and to develop solutions (or ‘projects’) for the problems they identify. This book serves an effective catalyst for stimulating rich discussion of the theoretical and practical bases of the many themes, or areas of study, which are treated in the story.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Raymond Lorenzo is Community-based City Planner (Harvard GSD, 1975) with considerable experience in university teaching. These have included the City University of New York Graduate School, The Open University and various Italian Universities. At present, he teaches “Place Making and Sustainable Communities” at The Umbra Institute, American Study Abroad, in Perugia Italy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children’s Free Play and Participation in the City
Book Subtitle: A Speculative Autobiography Concerning the World it just might Create
Authors: Raymond Lorenzo
Series Title: Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0300-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0299-4Published: 05 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-0302-1Published: 06 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-0300-7Published: 03 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-3408
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3416
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 438
Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 71 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Developmental Psychology, Environmental Sociology, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)