Children in cities: Why did they become invisible except when they left school?
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What image of the city do we transmit to our children?
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By: Emmanuelle Bastide
1 min
For several decades, in the streets of Western cities we have seen few children.
The "all car", buses, fears of accidents or kidnappings on the part of parents, the lack of green spaces ... have gradually sent the children back to their rooms.
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The city is not seen as a dream playground for its offspring.
However, learning autonomy, well-being, awakening ... also involves discovering your environment, however urban it may be.
What image of the city do we transmit to our children?
How can we make it less hostile and more fun so that the youngest can reclaim the urban space?
With :
Clément Rivière
, sociologist at the University of Lille, author of
Their children in the city - Survey of parents in Paris and Milan
(Presses Universitaires de Lyon)
Manon Besançon
, architect within the
Council of Architecture, Urbanism and the Environment of Paris
A report by
Théa Ollivier
, correspondent for RFI in Dakar, in the streets of the city in immersion with children.
A QR from
Pascal Thibaut
, RFI correspondent in Berlin, Germany
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