Involving Children in Urban Planning and Design Process: Toward Child-Friendly City in Cairo
Haidy Ehab Mohamed Maher;
Abstract
Children are the future of our city. Children who grow up as safe, active and engaged citizens will be adults who contribute to making a great city for the generations to come. Children are also among the most vulnerable citizens, and their hardships or well-being are the best indicators of what our city is like as a home for all.
Documented scientific research proves that children are the most important elements in their surroundings. Meanwhile, urban communities do not only contain their homes and relatives but also the facilities such as commercial areas and playgrounds as well as independent mobility. All elements of this built environment can mostly be viewed as urban planners, and urban designers’ roles to provide.
Ideally, towns and cities should be the site where children socialize, examine, and learn how society functions. They should also be places where they can find shelter as a basic human right, discover nature, and find tolerant and caring adults who will encourage them to explore and wonder about their world.
Within the next 30 years, the population of developing countries is set to double from 2 to 4 billion, and more than 50% of this number will be under the age of 24. Overall, in the year 2020, 56% of the world population was living in urban areas. Based on that, urban communities should be planned and designed to accommodate children’s needs and rights of a healthy urban environment in which a child can aspire to be a good inhabitant in the future.
Some Children in Cairo find themselves living in an overcrowded, unsafe, and polluted environment, which provides little opportunity for learning, playing, and recreation which consequently results in them being unable to gain the necessary spatial, physical, social, and analytical skills required for urban competence.
The literature part of the Case Study, in Cairo, discusses why children aren’t encouraged to explore their surroundings or learn the needed social, physical, and physiological skills required to be good
Documented scientific research proves that children are the most important elements in their surroundings. Meanwhile, urban communities do not only contain their homes and relatives but also the facilities such as commercial areas and playgrounds as well as independent mobility. All elements of this built environment can mostly be viewed as urban planners, and urban designers’ roles to provide.
Ideally, towns and cities should be the site where children socialize, examine, and learn how society functions. They should also be places where they can find shelter as a basic human right, discover nature, and find tolerant and caring adults who will encourage them to explore and wonder about their world.
Within the next 30 years, the population of developing countries is set to double from 2 to 4 billion, and more than 50% of this number will be under the age of 24. Overall, in the year 2020, 56% of the world population was living in urban areas. Based on that, urban communities should be planned and designed to accommodate children’s needs and rights of a healthy urban environment in which a child can aspire to be a good inhabitant in the future.
Some Children in Cairo find themselves living in an overcrowded, unsafe, and polluted environment, which provides little opportunity for learning, playing, and recreation which consequently results in them being unable to gain the necessary spatial, physical, social, and analytical skills required for urban competence.
The literature part of the Case Study, in Cairo, discusses why children aren’t encouraged to explore their surroundings or learn the needed social, physical, and physiological skills required to be good
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| Title | Involving Children in Urban Planning and Design Process: Toward Child-Friendly City in Cairo | Other Titles | اشراك الاطفال فى عملية التخطيط والتصميم الحضرى: نحو مدينة صديقة للطفل فى القاهرة | Authors | Haidy Ehab Mohamed Maher | Issue Date | 2021 |
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