Creating Child Friendly Cities – symposium presentations

This symposium held in Brisbane in October 2004, aimed to assess whether Australian and New Zealand cities are ‘child friendly’, and to identify what can be done, and what is being done, to improve their liveability for children.

The symposium also aimed to stimulate and connect scholarly and popular interest in the notion of child friendly cities and in the policies/programs needed to achieve this ideal. It provided an opportunity for an urban perspective on children’s well being.

Power point presentations from the Symposium are available on the Griffith University Urban Research Program website.

Presentations include:

• Professor Brendan Gleeson - Symposium Welcome, including information from Dr Fiona Stanley.
• Karen Malone - A city friendly to children is friendly to all: UNICEF”s Child-friendly Cities Initiative and UNESCO’s growing Up in Cities Project.
• Dr Claire Freeman - Future shapers: Planning with children and young people for better cities.
• Dr Kurt Iveson - Youth-friendly cities’ or ‘cities for angry young people’?
• Dr Wendy Sarkissian & Elyssa Ludher - Community engagement by children and young people in Australia including an assessment of community consultation manuals from Federal State and Local Governments in Australia.
• Dr Robin Kearns & Dr Damian Collins - Children in the intensifying city: Lessons from Auckland's walking school buses.
• Dr Paul Tranter - Overcoming social traps: a key to creating child-friendly cities including an analysis of the reduction in children’s freedom to explore their neighbourhood and city.
• Michael Chapman - Creating child friendly communities - a developer's perspective and reflections.
• Professor Brendan Gleeson - Summary & Close.
• Symposium program.

Follow this link to the Symposium presentations in the Events section of the Urban Research Program website (opens in a new browser window)

For further information

Contact	:	Urban Research Program
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