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Growing up in an urbanising world / Louise Chawla, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Earthscan, 2002Description: 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9231038176
  • 9789231038174
  • 1853838284
  • 9781853838286
  • 1853838276
  • 9781853838279
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.3416083 21
Contents:
Foreword -- Introductory Note -- Ch. 1. Introduction: Cities for Human Development -- Ch. 2. Argentina: Our Neighbourhood is Like That! -- Ch. 3. United Kingdom: Contested Worlds -- Ch. 4. Australia: Australian Youth -- Ch. 5. South Africa: Children in a South African Squatter Camp Gain and Lose a Voice -- Ch. 6. India: Tales from Truth Town -- Ch. 7. Norway: Large but Not Unlimited Freedom in a Nordic City -- Ch. 8. United States: Between Fences -- Ch. 9. Poland: Adapting During a Time of Great Change -- Ch. 10. Conclusion: Toward Better Cities for Children and Youth -- App. Research Guidelines.
Summary: "Half the world's children live in cities and the proportion is growing. Their environment critically determines their futures and the world they will make as adults. This text, by an interdisciplinary team of international child-environment authorities, explores how crucial the relationship of the young and their surroundings is. Covering eight countries, it shows the enormous benefits - for them, for the wider society and for the future - of involving children, especially from underprivileged communities, in planning and implementing urban improvements. It continues and updates Kevin Leech's pioneering 1970s MIT project, Growing Up in Cities."
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 307.3416083 GRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A285149B
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Published in association with UNESCO.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Introductory Note -- Ch. 1. Introduction: Cities for Human Development -- Ch. 2. Argentina: Our Neighbourhood is Like That! -- Ch. 3. United Kingdom: Contested Worlds -- Ch. 4. Australia: Australian Youth -- Ch. 5. South Africa: Children in a South African Squatter Camp Gain and Lose a Voice -- Ch. 6. India: Tales from Truth Town -- Ch. 7. Norway: Large but Not Unlimited Freedom in a Nordic City -- Ch. 8. United States: Between Fences -- Ch. 9. Poland: Adapting During a Time of Great Change -- Ch. 10. Conclusion: Toward Better Cities for Children and Youth -- App. Research Guidelines.

"Half the world's children live in cities and the proportion is growing. Their environment critically determines their futures and the world they will make as adults. This text, by an interdisciplinary team of international child-environment authorities, explores how crucial the relationship of the young and their surroundings is. Covering eight countries, it shows the enormous benefits - for them, for the wider society and for the future - of involving children, especially from underprivileged communities, in planning and implementing urban improvements. It continues and updates Kevin Leech's pioneering 1970s MIT project, Growing Up in Cities."

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