Children in the City

Carole Gayet-Viaud & Clément Rivière & Philippe Simay — 2015-10-02T05:00:00Z

After a long period of neglect, the field of urban studies in France is showing a marked revival of interest in children. In bringing together texts that offer different perspectives on children's experience of the city and their place within it, this series of articles seeks to contribute to the collective efforts currently under way in terms of reflecting upon (or rethinking) the specificities of these unique city-dwellers.
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- Series / public space, children

Children's autonomy and our relationship with public spaces

Clément Rivière & translated by Oliver Waine — 2012-11-07T05:55:00Z

The relationship between children and the city – a subject seldom studied in France in the past – has in recent years generated renewed interest in the world of the social sciences. Clément Rivière, who has conducted research in this field in Paris and Milan, shows that the parental structuring of children's outings in the city is based on protected spaces whose safety is assured through mutual acquaintance, and that these (highly gendered) practices tend to be much more restrictive for girls.

- From the Field / public space, gender, mobility, domestic space, children, neighborhood

Metropolitics

Children in the City

Children's autonomy and our relationship with public spaces