Urban infrastructures

Topic Guide: Planning for Sustainable and Inclusive Cities in the Global South

This guide explores the poverty and environmental challenges facing cities of the global South, and current thinking on how urban planning and management of the built and natural environment can be harnessed to address these challenges. The Topic Guide is written for DFID staff, but is relevant to all development professionals. It is suitable for…

Publication year: 2015
Content Type: Report

Social Infrastructure and the Public Life of Cities: Studying Urban Sociality and Public Spaces

Drawing on the arguments of the sociologist Eric Klinenberg, this article develops the concept of “social infrastructure” as a way to research and value these kinds of spaces. Social infrastructure helps in recognising the public dimensions of often overlooked and undervalued spaces. It draws attention to the breadth, depth, and textures of sociality that can…

Publication year: 2019
Content Type: Academic paper

Exploring the Fourth Environment. An Examination of the Home Range of City and Suburban Teenagers

In this study of a sample of 148 teenagers from metropolitan Toronto, home range is found to be smaller in the city, in lower social classes, and-in the suburbs only-for girls and younger teenagers. Home range is the spatial manifestation of exploring the «fourth environment,» which is globally defined as the environment outside the home,…

Publication year: 1983
Content Type: Academic paper

Can the Neighborhood Built Environment Make a Difference to Children’s Development? Building the Research Agenda to Create Evidence for Place-Based Children’s Policy

This paper argues the importance of exploring the effect of the neighbourhood built environment on child development as a crucial first step towards informing urban design principle to help reduce developmental vulnerability in children, and set optimal child development trajectories early.

Publication year: 2015
Content Type: Academic paper

Tools to Act- Year 2 Report for the Every One Every Day Initiative in Barking and Dagenham

The Every One Every Day initiative is grounded in Participatory City’s nine years of deep engagement with those at the forefront of developing ‘participation culture’ around the world. The genesis of the idea has been built on research aimed at developing an approach to fostering more of these new types of inclusive participation projects, seeing…

Publication year: 2019
Content Type: Toolkit

Special Issue: Child-Friendly Cities

The purpose of this special issue is to draw together strands of the conversations about evidence, policy, guidance, process and best practice; and to help practitioners, researchers and policy makers make the links between the health of the child and the health of the city. The research, ideas and case studies discussed in this special…

Publication year: 2019
Content Type: Academic paper

Exploring the Methodology of Participatory Design to Create Appropriate Sanitation Technologies in Rural Malawi

The methodologies of demand-led sanitation programmes (including community-led total sanitation [CLTS] and sanitation marketing) encourage participation of users in the design of appropriate sanitation facilities. There has been limited examination of the application of established methodologies in participatory design in the sanitation sector. This paper describes and reflects upon three case studies that applied established…

Publication year: 2014
Content Type: Academic paper

Change by Design: Building Communities Through Participatory Design

This report documents a two-week action research workshop, Change by Design, undertaken in Nairobi, Kenya from 19th June – 1st July 2011. The workshop was developed and coordinated under the banner of Architecture Sans Frontieres (ASF), in partnership with the Pamoja Trust, a Kenyan NGO, and the Housing Policy Section of UN-HABITAT. The principal focus…

Publication year: 2011
Content Type: Academic paper

Mass Displacement and the Challenge for Urban Resilience

This report examines all forms of migration: forced and voluntary, domestic and cross-border, and in response to different pressures (particularly disasters and conflict). It focuses on the very large numbers of people moving out of conflict-affected places, across international borders, into urban areas of neighbouring or nearby countries. The report assesses the impact of mass…

Publication year: 2017
Content Type: Report

The Techniques of Participatory Design for Inclusive Public Space Provision in Kampung Kota of Surakarta

The technique of participatory design is essential for the future development knowledge of architecture to inform the improvement of architectural education and practice in Asia. Therefore to provide of inclusive public spaces for the community, this research article presents a field study of the usage of community participation design method in design and planning to…

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Academic paper

A City for All Citizens: Integrating Children and Youth from Marginalized Populations into City Planning

Socially just, intergenerational urban spaces should not only accommodate children and adolescents, but engage them as participants in the planning and design of welcoming spaces. With this goal, city agencies in Boulder, Colorado, the Boulder Valley School District, the Children, Youth and Environments Centre at the University of Colorado, and a number of community organizations…

Publication year: 2013
Content Type: Academic paper

From Participatory Design to a Listening Infrastructure: A Case of Urban Planning and Participation

In this article, the authors confront challenges faced in public planning projects when the desire to implement participatory design is complicated by the need for mass quantities of data. Using one case of participatory design in urban planning, they suggest that planners struggled to effectively employ participatory design methodology because they neglected to collect the…

Publication year: 2016
Content Type: Academic paper

Child Friendly Cities and Communities Handbook

The Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) was launched in 1996 to respond to the challenge of realizing the rights of children in an increasingly urbanized and decentralized world. This Handbook is a succinct summary of the practices, common challenges and lessons learned. It contains a step-by-step guide to establishing a CFCI, which leaves adequate room…

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Report

Participatory Design Processes for the Development of Green Areas of Large-Scale Housing: Case Studies from Budapest and Riga

Large housing estates (LHE) found in CEE countries can be seen as a legacy of socialism. Their endurance in these countries is still evident: the future of LHEs is substantially linked to their physical and social characteristics formed during socialism and their decline in status in Hungary and Latvia. The Western European practice of urban…

Publication year: 2016
Content Type: Academic paper

The State of the World’s Children 2012

The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World examines the situation of children growing up in urban settings and finds that denials of children’s rights to survival, health, nutrition, education and protection are widespread. It sheds light on the scale of these urban inequities and suggests ways to ensure that urban…

Publication year: 2012
Content Type: Report

Access to Play for Children in Situation of Crisis. Synthesis of Research in Six Countries

Very little evidence exists on children’s play in situations of crisis. The IPA research project aims to fill that gap by conducting empirical research in six locations (India, Japan, Lebanon, Nepal, Thailand and Turkey). IPA APC research questions include: How does crisis affect children’s right to play in everyday life? How do children cope with…

Publication year: 2017
Content Type: Report

Global Public Space Toolkit: From Global Principles to Local Policies and Practice

The toolkit will be a practical reference for local governments to frame and implement principles, policy recommendations and development initiatives on public space and for central governments to aid their efforts with material support and enabling legislation. It will also serve the purpose of demonstrating the value of the involvement of the citizenry and civil…

Publication year: 2016
Content Type: Toolkit

Child-Friendly Urban Design. Observations on Public Space from Eindhoven (Nl) and Jerusalem (Il)

This report presents findings on urban design solutions for increasing child-friendliness at the neighbourhood level. It reviews the literature on best practices, analyses indicators on the suitability of the public sphere for young children and their parents, presents empirical data on neighbourhoods in Eindhoven (NL) and Jerusalem (IL), and develops recommendations for better design of…

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Report

The Potential of Participatory Design to Improve Urban Spaces in the Slums of Caracas, Venezuela

It may be said that slums have become one with Caracas, and so to eradicate them completely would be almost impossible task. A more suitable solution therefore is to rehabilitate these areas, and improve the current living environment. Taking into account the meagre access to construction materials, the prevailing social conditions, and the absence of…

Publication year: 2017
Content Type: Academic paper

After the Tsunami in Cooks Nagar: The Challenges of Participatory Rebuilding

In the context of post-disaster reconstruction, there is growing awareness of the need for more integrated inclusive processes that allow people to retake control of their lives, and that ensure practical responses to local conditions. Yet, a range of pressures and challenges conspire to make these approaches appear unworkable. “Participation” in this context, if it…

Publication year: 2008
Content Type: Academic paper

Growing Up in an Urbanizing World

Growing Up in an Urbanising World summarizes the results of an eight-nation UNESCO project that explores these questions and others across a spectrum of low-income neighbourhoods in the industrialized and developing worlds. Building on the pioneering ideas of the Growing Up in Cities project of the 1970s (a four-country effort directed by the influential urban…

Publication year: 2001
Content Type: Book

Children’s Experience of the Physical Environment in Poor Urban Settlements and the Implications for Policy, Planning and Practice

This paper describes how children’s needs are routinely ignored or misunderstood by urban development policy, plans and practice – and the very high costs this brings for them in terms of ill-health, injury, premature death and impaired physical, mental and social development. For instance, provision for water, sanitation and housing often fails to address the…

Publication year: 1999
Content Type: Academic paper

Putting the Informal on the Map Tools for Participatory Waste Management

Informal urban infrastructures are a challenging environment for participatory design, both from an organizational and technical perspective. In this paper we reflect on a recent research project involving participatory sensing and design of participatory technologies for informal recycling cooperatives. We collaborated with COOPAMARE, a cooperative in central São Paulo, Brazil, on two goals: to map…

Publication year: 2012
Content Type: Academic paper

The Influence of the Neighborhood Physical Environment on Early Child Health and Development: A Review and Call for Research

This review examines evidence of the association between the neighbourhood built environment, green spaces and outdoor home area, and early (0-7 years) child health and development. There was evidence that the presence of child relevant neighbourhood destinations and services were positively associated with early child development domains of physical health and wellbeing and social competence.…

Publication year: 2015
Content Type: Academic paper

Thematic Area: Urban infrastructures

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