Inclusivity Series - Planning and Design for an Child-Friendly Society

 

Child-friendly city is defined as “a local system of good governance committed to fulfilling children’s rights.” (UNICEF, 1990). As children’s capacities develop gradually throughout childhood, we as adults play a crucial role in ensuring children’s well-being and holistic development.  Child-friendly planning does not only lean on safekeeping of the kids, but also requires recognition of children’s right for recreation, participation and contribution. In this month’s issue, we are going to review how child-friendly city become accredited in other cities.

We Let Kids Design Our City - Here’s What Happened

Speaker: Mara Mintzer

How to Make Cities More Child-Friendly [In French, with English captions]

Publisher: EIT Urban Mobility

打造儿童友好型城市 Create a Child-Friendly City

Speaker: Mindong NI

The impact of decreasing fertility in the recent years will be profound on both the social fabric and local economy. Through offering quality and affordable childcare facilities and services, a government may influence childbearing positively. Let’s take a look at Singapore’s proactive practice in developing mega childcare centers as a way to encourage childbearing.

Singapore is Building Mega Children Centers

Publisher: Quartz

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