Urban Childhoods
Growing up in English inner cities today is a distinctive experience: deprivation and poverty are intense, while social and cultural diversity enriches everyday life. Urban Childhoods puts children’s and families’ voices centre stage while investigating ways of bringing children’s wellbeing to the f...
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| description | Growing up in English inner cities today is a distinctive experience: deprivation and poverty are intense, while social and cultural diversity enriches everyday life. Urban Childhoods puts children’s and families’ voices centre stage while investigating ways of bringing children’s wellbeing to the fore in planning for urban life today and tomorrow. Children’s wellbeing starts from what children themselves find important: reliable relationships, plenty to do, especially outdoors, and having a say in their lives. Organised around three main themes of place, provisioning and infrastructure, the book brings together key concepts from critical childhood studies, urban studies and public health to argue that, used together, these approaches offer a dynamic framework for considering urban childhood. Chapters are linked to a major prevention programme that ran between 2019 and 2025 in the northern city of Bradford and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. They investigate spaces to play outdoors, reclaiming school streets, child poverty, economic support for child wellbeing via families, and provision for under threes. A number of strategies also feature, including support for mothers’ mental health, resolving overcrowding, involving children in making better school food, and increasing community participation in co-creating health and wellbeing. Each chapter has sections on inequality of experience, voices of children, families and professionals who work with them, and hopeful courses of action, including potential policy actions. The whole builds into a blueprint for an urgently needed thriving urban childhood. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1668432025-10-01T05:10:34Z Urban Childhoods Cameron, Claire childhood England Bradford Tower Hamlets ActEarly inner city child wellbeing place provisioning infrastructure inequality diversity prevention families disadvantage minoritised ethnicity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSB Welfare and benefit systems::JKSB1 Child welfare and youth services Growing up in English inner cities today is a distinctive experience: deprivation and poverty are intense, while social and cultural diversity enriches everyday life. Urban Childhoods puts children’s and families’ voices centre stage while investigating ways of bringing children’s wellbeing to the fore in planning for urban life today and tomorrow. Children’s wellbeing starts from what children themselves find important: reliable relationships, plenty to do, especially outdoors, and having a say in their lives. Organised around three main themes of place, provisioning and infrastructure, the book brings together key concepts from critical childhood studies, urban studies and public health to argue that, used together, these approaches offer a dynamic framework for considering urban childhood. Chapters are linked to a major prevention programme that ran between 2019 and 2025 in the northern city of Bradford and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. They investigate spaces to play outdoors, reclaiming school streets, child poverty, economic support for child wellbeing via families, and provision for under threes. A number of strategies also feature, including support for mothers’ mental health, resolving overcrowding, involving children in making better school food, and increasing community participation in co-creating health and wellbeing. Each chapter has sections on inequality of experience, voices of children, families and professionals who work with them, and hopeful courses of action, including potential policy actions. The whole builds into a blueprint for an urgently needed thriving urban childhood. 2025-10-01T05:10:33Z 2025-10-01T05:10:33Z 2025-09-30T08:19:43Z 2025 book ONIX_20250930T101509_9781800089341_12 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106201 9781800089341 9781800089310 9781800089334 9781800089358 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/166843 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/106201/1/9781800089341.pdf UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781800089341 10.14324/111.9781800089341 29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc 9781800089341 9781800089310 9781800089334 9781800089358 London open access |
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| title | Urban Childhoods |
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| title_short | Urban Childhoods |
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| topic | childhood England Bradford Tower Hamlets ActEarly inner city child wellbeing place provisioning infrastructure inequality diversity prevention families disadvantage minoritised ethnicity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSB Welfare and benefit systems::JKSB1 Child welfare and youth services |
| topic_facet | childhood England Bradford Tower Hamlets ActEarly inner city child wellbeing place provisioning infrastructure inequality diversity prevention families disadvantage minoritised ethnicity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSB Welfare and benefit systems::JKSB1 Child welfare and youth services |
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