Children
Alternative labels
Childhood
Conference paper
The role of fun in city centre revitalisation projects: children and fountains
This paper focuses on a number of water based interactive art installations/sculptures and their role in creating dynamic, fun, yet economically and socially viable urban spaces.
Conference paper
Are master-planned new urbanist suburbs a 'solution' for sustainable travel to schools? Comparing children's travel in select Australian primary schools
This paper focuses on the results from 250 children that completed travel diaries to assess children's travel behaviour in Australian cities.
Conference paper
Children's cycling for transport in selected Australian urban environments: model shares and determinations of significance
This paper uses CATCH/iMATCH project data to explore parental and child perceptions towards their social and built environment reports on itsvrelationship with cycling take-up and usage.
Report
The tyrannies of distance and disadvantage: factors related to children's development in regional and disadvantaged areas of Australia
This research report investigates whether children in regional areas experience a "tyranny of distance" or a "tyranny of disadvantage". In other words, are the gaps in children's development in regional areas compared to children living in the major cities explained by their distance from the major cities (remoteness), or is it because many regional areas...
Conference paper
If I come back in a few years and nothing has changed, I'll be MAD!: Lessons in co-planning with children from the CATCH/iMATCH Citizen Kid's Planning Group
CATCH/iMATCH is a three-year research project examining the influence of the built, social and policy environments on children’s independent mobility and active travel in Australia. This paper presents the findings of the ‘Citizen Kid’ Planning Group and explores some of the lessons for both research and for planning practice, that have been highlighted in this...