Landscapes are, in part, expressions of culture and they serve a support for the continuance of particular cultures or subcultures. When one looks closely at variations in landscapes and their different impacts upon chil- dren it becomes clear that they serve as important tools in the socialization of children, though neither parents or planners are […]
Author: Bijan Kimiagar
Whether geographical behavior begins with a baby’s first exploration of its own body, its spatial experiments in coping for its mover’s attending, or when it first crawls away from the “nest”, it must surely be agree that human geography beings in children. Why then has so little been written b our profession on the geography […]
City children have always wanted to play in the streets. They have wanted to be where the action is. The earliest playground were never intended to provide a rich play environment for children; adults wanted children off the streets, especially those children who were considered delinquent. They did not stay off the streets. All over […]
In the first step to construct a model of the development of environmental concern, theories of children’s understanding of environmental processes are moral development are reviewed. Connections between development in these fields and development of environmental concern are suggest. It is proposed that there are three motivations for environmental concern, which involve separate but overlapping paths […]
Health care facility planners and designers, like professionals in any other fields have not often recognized the valuable contributions children can make to their work. There are, however, some special reasons that make child participation in health facility design particularly important. First, child health care facilities are, even more than any other environment, adult-controlled. The […]
The purpose of the dissertation is to advance a critical understanding of how a neighborhood environment can have changed since 1890 and to identify the consequents these changes have brought to children. Current problems in children’s access to their communities thus are discussed in light of their origins and historical precedents; the problem of today […]
The primary aim of this research is to construct and test a comprehensive model of parental child rearing and safety ideologies and to investigate the relationship of these ideologies to the Safety Management Systems (SMS) of families. The concept of SMS is used to describe the entire set of factors existing at any one time […]
This dissertation provides an analysis of how young people’s everyday lives outside of school in Yorkville and East Harlem have changed from the 1940s until present time, and what factors contribute to consistencies or differences in young people’s use and experience of their local environment. This research seeks to contribute to the limited academic literature on […]
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This article demonstrates the potential of participatory mapping approaches to coordinate spontaneous volunteers and assist government agencies and humanitarian organizations in emergency contexts. The research focuses on one case study of a volunteer mapping project in the Rockaways in New York City to help communicate the needs reported by community members to outsiders after Hurricane […]
