Place of children in community building: Putting theory into practice. Children's and young people's engagement report (Vol. 2)

The research presented here is the response to a CoGB project brief Place of Our Children in Community Building: Turning Theory into Practice that had a “particular focus on how policy development and the built environment can better respond to the stated needs and aspirations of our children”. The project was conducted through a dual phase approach which consisted of a desktop policy review and the development of an innovative methodology for incorporating children’s and young people’s environmental views, experiences and feelings into planning and urban design processes. This is the second report of the two-stage project commissioned by the CoGB. The brief for the second stage required the project team to “Design and implement two (2) urban case studies, the sites of which are located in the Communities for Children site area. Such experiential case studies … provide the opportunity for children to be actively engaged to determine how best they might contribute to the planning of ...