Городская «доброжелательность» к детям: взрослый и детский взгляды (на материалах городов юга дальнего востока)
“Child-friendliness” of cities: children’s and adults’ views (based on the cases of Russia’s far east cities)

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the “child-friendliness” of cities. The study is based on the empirical materials collected in the cities of the southern part of Russia’s Far East — interviews with children, their parents, and experts. The study of the city milieu consisted in the identification of city spaces, their interpretation, and the analysis of children’s movements. The city spaces are divided into institutional and non-institutional ones. Child mobility is studied through the correlation of freedom and control, whether children are supervised by adults or not. Children’s and adults’ views on the city coincide in their identification of the key indicators of safety, comfort, availability, but differ in their content. Expert opinion integrates children’s and adults’ views on the city. Experts add the indicators of the absence of boundaries, children’s participation in the formation of the milieu, etc.

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