In Norway, Housing Schemes Designed with Children in Mind

Grégoire Tortosa & translated by Oliver Waine — 2024-11-22T06:00:00Z

How can cities take more of a “child's eye view”? Grégoire Tortosa shows how avant-garde housing developments in Oslo and Tromsø, in Norway, have been designed to encourage children to play freely.
From the 1920s onwards, the Modernist movement defined a new conception of the city. By proposing a “coherent set of reasoning principles recognized and used as a reference,” it set itself up as an urban paradigm (Héran 2015, p. 33), with functionalism, technicism, the rejection of all heritage,

- From the Field / cars, Norvège, urban planning, spatial planning, urban design, urban development, housing, housing estates, housing projects, children, play

Challenges in Co-Producing Publicly Accessible Spaces

Ulrich Berding & Antje Havemann & Juliane Pegels — 2012-09-19T04:55:00Z

Publicly accessible urban spaces are more often than not co-produced and maintained via ad hoc partnerships between public administrations and private owners and tenants. The authors describe the complex negotiations that lead to this intricate situation in German cities, and point at some directions to clarify the respective roles of private and public players in the production of urban public space.
---- Dossier : Espaces publics urbains et concertation Plazas, parks and promenades play

- From the Field / public space, urban design, privatization, Germany

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In Norway, Housing Schemes Designed with Children in Mind

Challenges in Co-Producing Publicly Accessible Spaces