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Author : Pia Christensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134512643
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children in the City written by Pia Christensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and thought-provoking book explores children's lives in modern cities. At a time of intense debate about the quality of life in cities, this book examines how they can become good places for children to live in. Through contributions from childhood experts in Europe, Australia and America, the book shows the importance of studying children's lives in cities in a comparative and generational perspective. It also contains fascinating accounts of city living from children themselves, and offers practical design solutions. The authors consider the importance of the city as a social, material and cultural place for children, and explore the connections and boundaries between home, neighbourhood, community and city. Throughout, they stress the importance of engaging with how children see their city in order to reform it within a child-sensitive framework. This book is invaluable reading for students and academics in the field of anthropology, sociology, social policy and education. It will also be of interest to those working in the field of architecture, urban planning and design.

Author : Catherine Compton-Lilly
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807742767
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Families written by Catherine Compton-Lilly and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dynamic text offers a rare glimpse into the literacy development of urban children and their families' role in it. Based on the author's candid interviews with her first-grade students, their parents and grandparents, this book challenges the stereotypical view that urban parents don't care about their children's education. By listening closely to the voices of her students and their families, the author helps us to move beyond negative assumptions, revealing complexities that have previously been undocumented.

Author : Meredith Glaser
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9059727142
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City at Eye Level written by Meredith Glaser and published by Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although rarely explored in academic literature, most inhabitants and visitors interact with an urban landscape on a day-to-day basis is on the street level. Storefronts, first floor apartments, and sidewalks are the most immediate and common experience of a city. These "plinths" are the ground floors that negotiate between inside and outside, the public and private spheres. The City at Eye Level qualitatively evaluates plinths by exploring specific examples from all over the world. Over twenty-five experts investigate the design, land use, and road and foot traffic in rigorously researched essays, case studies, and interviews. These pieces are supplemented by over two hundred beautiful color images and engage not only with issues in design, but also the concerns of urban communities. The editors have put together a comprehensive guide for anyone concerned with improving or building plinths, including planners, building owners, property and shop managers, designers, and architects.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kids Count Data Book written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your City's Kids written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Nasaw
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307816621
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children Of The City written by David Nasaw and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined—primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams. Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant portrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young.

Author : Ray D. Peters
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387238247
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resilience in Children, Families, and Communities written by Ray D. Peters and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the numerous benefits derived from major technological and medical innovations of the past century, we continue to live in a world rife with significant social problems and challenges. Children continue to be born into lives of poverty; others must confront daily their parent’s mental illness or substance abuse; still others live amid chronic family discord or child abuse. For some of these children, life’s difficulties become overwhelming. Their enduring trauma can lead to a downward spiral, until their behavioral and emotional problems become lifelong barriers to success and wellbeing. Almost no one today would deny that the world is sometimes an inhospitable, even dangerous, place for our youth. Yet most children—even those living in high-risk environments—appear to persevere. Some even flourish. And this begs the question: why, in the face of such great odds, do these children become survivors rather than casualties of their environments? For many decades, scholars have pursued answers to the mysteries of resilience. Now, having culled several decades of research findings, the editors of this volume offer an in-depth, leading-edge description and analysis of Resilience in Children, Families and Communities: Linking Context to Practice and Policy. The book is divided into three readily accessible sections that both define the scope and limits of resilience as well as provide hands-on programs that families, neighborhoods, and communities can implement. In addition, several chapters provide real-life intervention strategies and social policies that can be readily put into practice. The goal: to enable children to develop more effective problem-solving skills, to help each child to improve his or her self-image, and to define ways in which role models can affect positive outcomes throughout each child’s lifetime. For researchers, clinicians, and students, Resilience in Children, Families and Communities: Linking Context to Practice and Policy is an essential addition to their library. It provides practical information to inform greater success in the effort to encourage resilience in all children and to achieve positive youth development.

Author : Kristin N Agnello
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9781989985014
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child in the City written by Kristin N Agnello and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child and family-friendly communities acknowledge that an environment that addresses the needs of children - who have limited independent mobility, experience, and autonomy - is one that is friendlier and more accessible to people of all ages and abilities. This toolkit has been developed collaboratively, with voluntary input from local governments, non-profit housing organizations, architects, urban designers, urban planners, developers, real estate specialists, researchers, and educators. This toolkit is not intended to exclude adults and seniors, but rather provide a lens through which planners, designers, and policy-makers can support child and family-friendly development practices that have positive intergenerational benefits. To plan our cities in a way that enables children to be co-authors of their own communities is key to a sustainable - and inclusive - future. If the city tells a story of experience, opportunity, and ownership, then its design should enable all citizens to write their own story.

Author : Heike Schaenzel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317243293
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children, Families and Leisure written by Heike Schaenzel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to further academic debate within the leisure and tourism studies community about the role of ‘families’ in contemporary life and the experiences of families and their children in the leisure environment. It is based on the recognition of the diverse nature of the family in the contemporary era and the position of children in families and society in general as active and knowing social agents rather than as passive objects. The family is on the one hand our first community with its own special kind of human attachment and on the other a little world on which the larger society is modelled. Families form the closest and most important emotional bond in humans. This relationship is what drives humanity and society, and positions families at the centre of leisure activities. This international and multi-disciplinary compilation of recent research into children and families examines progress made and challenges ahead for leisure studies. It extends the academic discourse to a wider understanding of what families, children and their leisure behaviour mean in today’s societies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Annals of Leisure Research.

Author : National League of Cities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ways and Means for Children and Families written by National League of Cities and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide reviews resources local officials can use to improve institutional services for children and families, and offers procedural advice. Chapter 1 examines the role of municipal government in providing human services and identifies two roles local government has in delivering these services: broker and administrator. Chapter 2 examines major federal programs that local officials can tap to fund local programs for families and children. Chapter 3 reviews the range of state sources of support for programs affecting children and families. Chapter 4 describes the role of private funding for local programs, demonstrating ways in which city officials can act as brokers with private funders in order to secure resources for funding and improve human services delivery. Chapter 5 describes the municipality as a service provider and its residents as customers. The chapter also reviews ways in which cities and towns can satisfy customers without spending money. Chapter 6 examines ways municipalities can generate funding by reorganizing budgets and generating revenues. Chapter 7 describes the administrative structure needed if city halls are to raise funds for families and children. The chapter includes a section on ways to make and maintain contacts with potential funders and a guide to writing a grant proposal. Appendices provide ideas and resources for specific programs and projects and suggestions for reading and contacts. (RH)