7 billion neighbors

Children in cities: why have they become invisible except when leaving school?

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What image of the city do you pass on to your children?

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By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

For several decades, in the streets of Western cities we see few children.

The " 

 ", buses, fears of accidents or kidnappings on the part of parents, the lack of green spaces have gradually sent children back to their rooms.

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The city is not seen as a dream playground for his offspring.

However, learning autonomy, well-being, awakening... also involves discovering one's environment, however urban it may be.

What image of the city do we pass on to our children?

How to make it less hostile and more playful so that the youngest reclaim the urban space?   

Rebroadcast of Tuesday, January 4, 2022

With : 

Clément Rivière

, sociologist at the University of Lille, author of 

Manon Besançon

, architect and project manager on educational subjects within the

A report by 

, correspondent for RFI in Dakar, the capital of Senegal has 4 million inhabitants out of the 17 million inhabitants of the country and which has developed rapidly without necessarily adapting to the very young.

In order to understand the challenges of a Dakar family on a daily basis, Théa Ollivier spent a Saturday afternoon with the family of Jonathan, 9 years old and his little brother Jean-Jacques, 3 years old.

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