Challenges and strategies for urban green-space planning in cities undergoing densification: A review

C Haaland, CK van Den Bosch - Urban forestry & urban greening, 2015 - Elsevier
The compact city approach has gained global impact as a planning approach for
sustainable development in areas with increasing urban population. Through densification …

Sustainable community development: Integrating social and environmental sustainability for sustainable housing and communities

N Winston - Sustainable Development, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The concepts of sustainable development (SD) and sustainable communities (SCs) are
firmly on policy agendas. Conceptual clarity is essential for the selection of high‐quality …

Child-friendly urban structures: Bullerby revisited

A Broberg, M Kyttä, N Fagerholm - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2013 - Elsevier
Definitions of environmental child friendliness offer broad criteria that are not easy to study
or assess. We suggest that due to this broadness, these definitions have produced …

Residential built environment and working from home: A New Zealand perspective during COVID-19

B Mayer, M Boston - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, 90 countries, including Aotearoa New Zealand,
executed lockdowns. As non-essential businesses could not operate from their usual …

“Because we are all people”: outcomes and reflections from young people's participation in the planning and design of child-friendly public spaces

V Derr, E Tarantini - Local Environment, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Child-Friendly Cities were conceived as a means to integrate children's rights
into city decision-making and governance. Participatory research about child-friendly cities …

Can the neighborhood built environment make a difference in children's development? Building the research agenda to create evidence for place-based children's …

K Villanueva, H Badland, A Kvalsvig, M O'Connor… - Academic pediatrics, 2016 - Elsevier
Healthy child development is determined by a combination of physical, social, family,
individual, and environmental factors. Thus far, the majority of child development research …

Participation, consultation, confusion: professionals' understandings of children's participation in physical planning

S Cele, D van Der Burgt - Children's Geographies, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This article discusses how professionals understand the theory and practice of children's
participation in physical planning processes. Drawing on group discussions between …

Ordinary vertical urbanisms: City apartments and the everyday geographies of high-rise families

M Nethercote, R Horne - Environment and planning A, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
In many new world cities, inner city apartment development proceeds at unprecedented
rates. In dominant urban planning and property development discourses, new inner city …

Seasonal and locational variations in children's play: Implications for wellbeing

CR Ergler, RA Kearns, K Witten - Social science & medicine, 2013 - Elsevier
Physical activity, through independent outdoor play, has come to the fore as a way to
improve children's health through it fostering healthy mental and social as well as …

From backyards to balconies: cultural norms and parents' experiences of home in higher-density housing

SM Kerr, N Klocker, C Gibson - Housing studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Families increasingly make home in higher-density housing, a major transition for
low-density suburban cities. Adjusting to everyday life in apartments requires distinctive …