The Child in the City’s Play Space: Creating and Sustaining Child-Friendly Public Domains

摘要: From its spectacular origins as the host site for World Expo 88, South Bank in Brisbane, Australia has been redeveloped an inner-city precinct that is highly attractive to families and children. Unlike theme park rivals with their contrived commercialized play environments, Bank's success - more than 11 million visitors annually stems from deliberative effort creating managing a public domain not only free but adaptive play, leisure learning experiences it offers. Referencing exemplar, this paper examines current disconnect between planning design of Australian cities spaces providing environments welcome children also establish social psychological connections stimulate ultimately civic participation. Too easily, environment many uncritically fails consider child's experience place critical opportunity offers shape understanding how exercise democratic rights turn accept responsibilities future citizens. The rich diversity children's across precinct, ranging physical recreational participation active involvement arts, are critically examined assess right participate large creatively generated sustained. conclusively demonstrates can genuine connection natural inner-city, does necessarily need be confined regulated botanical gardens or sterile green spaces. will however, assert key reason facility's provision security mechanisms technology ensure safety families. Popularly seen inhibitor participate, risk management procedures highlighted particular reference child incidents Parklands these have effectively managed. draw on relevant preliminary research commissioned by Place Leaders' Association benchmarking different domains other conducted Urban Research Program Griffith University, place-based indicators child-friendly communities.