URBAN playground;HOW CHILD-FRIENDLY PLANNING AND DESIGN CAN SAVE CITIES by Tim Gill

Author:Tim Gill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RIBA Publishing
Published: 2021-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Gender

There are clear differences in the ways that boys and girls use and experience urban neighbourhoods and spaces. Boys enjoy greater freedom of mobility and are more populous and visible in playgrounds, parks and public spaces than girls.24 Boys also tend to dominate informal public sports areas such as ball courts, skateparks and the like. As with disability, it is landscape-led design principles that hold the key to creating more genderequal spaces. Gender-sensitive engagement initiatives, and measures to improve female representation in planning and design professions, are also vital in improving access and design for girls and young women. Vienna’s work on gender mainstreaming (see p 108) shows how this might look.

Figure 5.2 Young children experience the world from closer to the ground

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