Children’s Free Play and Participation in the City

A Speculative Autobiography Concerning the World it just might Create

Raymond Lorenzo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

438 Seiten

2023 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-19-0302-1 (ISBN)

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This book presents an interplay of imaginative memoir-telling, action research data and future projection that reminds and inspires experiences academics, researchers, professionals, as well as a wider public to recognize the fundamental importance and the impellent need for more and better work in favour of true political and societal recognition of the needs and rights of children to play freely, to participate, to live fully and enjoy their neighbourhoods and cities, and to imagine and construct alternative futures, together with adults.

The book's abundant spoken dialogue is, in effect, storytelling between children (and youth) on their own and with adults (especially the elderly). It conveys an appreciation of children’s special capacities to think critically about their everyday places—and the greater world around them—and to develop solutions (or ‘projects’) for the problems they identify. This book serves an effective catalyst for stimulating rich discussion of the theoretical and practical bases of the many themes, or areas of study, which are treated in the story.

Raymond Lorenzo is Community-based City Planner (Harvard GSD, 1975) with considerable experience in university teaching. These have included the City University of New York Graduate School, The Open University and various Italian Universities. At present, he teaches “Place Making and Sustainable Communities” at The Umbra Institute, American Study Abroad, in Perugia Italy.

Part 1. A New Home … awakening: The Little Child - Microcosm in Expansion … asking why.- The Old Man - Getting grounded … remembering why.- Part 2. A New Street … exploring and bonding: The Child - Free play, friendship and learning.- The Old Man - Getting around … recovering commitment.- Part 3. A New Community … encountering, reflecting and taking part: The Boy - Growing up and out into ‘a world beyond the hood’.- Part 4. A New World … investigating, visioning, engaging and creating: The Young Man walking in the Shadows.- The Old Man reaching for the Light.- Postscript.- Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.06.2023
Reihe/Serie	Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories
Zusatzinfo	71 Illustrations, color; 48 Illustrations, black and white; XXV, 438 p. 119 illus., 71 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Brooklyn contexts • childhood free play and autonomy • children and city places • children and community • children and street life • children and urban exploration • children's everyday environment • children's everyday life • Children's participation • children's play and environments • children's storytelling • city planning and everyday environments • collaboration in affinity groups • engineering and everyday environments • food and commensality • imagining and designing the Future • mutual aid • Naples contexts • New York City contexts • sustainability of environment • urban geography and urbanism
ISBN-10	981-19-0302-6 / 9811903026
ISBN-13	978-981-19-0302-1 / 9789811903021
Zustand	Neuware