The role of green spaces and their management in a child-friendly urban village |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany;2. Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr von Hauner Children''s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany;3. Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometrics and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany;4. School of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada;5. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany;6. Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain;7. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain;8. Research Institute, Department of Paediatrics, Marien-Hospital Wesel, Wesel, Germany;9. Division of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Dr. von Hauner Children''s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany;1. University of South Australia, Australia;2. The University of Melbourne, Australia |
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Environmental child-friendliness is affected by how built environments and green spaces are planned and designed, but also by their ongoing management, including both development and maintenance. This study examined children’s perspectives on their local environments with focus on green spaces and their management in an urban village. Five groups totalling 16 children aged 10–11 were interviewed through child-led walks. Both the qualities of the village as a whole and of specific places within it added to the child-friendliness of the local environment. The children showed planned and managed spaces including playgrounds and parks, and unmanaged places such as abandoned gardens. They found many qualities in multifunctional planned places with a varied, rich content. In unmanaged areas the lack of management was seen as positive for exploration, play possibilities and for the place to be children’s own. The findings suggest that children’s perspectives can play an important role not only in planning and design, but also in the ongoing process of landscape management, including the provision of more variation in local green spaces. |
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| Keywords: | Children’s perspectives Child-friendly environments Green space management Landscape management Landscape planning Urban green space |
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