1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook on the Influence of Built Environments on Diverse Childhoods
Children and young people are often discussed as if they are homogenous groups. The reality is, of course, very different, with an enormous variation within each of these groups and in any domain of experience pertaining to childhood or adolescence. Driven by personal, sociocultural, geographic, or economic circumstances, many children and young people worldwide are experiencing a totally different reality to those who fit with more mainstream patterns of childhood. This has substantial implications for their sociophysical environmental experience and our understanding of their physical environmental needs. The aim of this book is to draw attention to these alternate realities for a number of these groups of children and young people, highlighting the unique and different considerations associated with their particular circumstances in each instance, and identifying the repercussions for their physical environmental needs. Ultimately, this book creates an evidence-based discussion which can be used by designers, planners and policy makers, and those delivering services and programs to children and young people as a basis to make informed decisions on how to work with the groups of children and young people in our book for better environmental provision.
Introduction
Kate Bishop and Katina Dimoulias
Part I: Framing the Conversation
1. Global Challenges and Trends Affecting All Children and Young People and Their Environmental Experience
Kate Bishop and Katina Dimoulias
2. Conceptualizing Challenging Childhoods: Contemporary Models and Frameworks for Addressing Vulnerability
Jennifer Skattebol and Megan Blaxland
3. Environmental Considerations for Children and Young People with Diverse Childhood Experiences: Current Conversations in Research
Kate Bishop
Part II: Meeting Children’s and Young People’s Rights and Supporting Their Agency in the Built Environment
4. Reimagining Urban Liminal Spaces as Children’s Places to Secure Children’s Right to the City and Fulfil Rights of Children
Sudeshna Chatterjee and Anupama Nallari
5. “Flying for the First Time”: Situating Sustainability-in-Place among Children and Young People within Agricultural Communities of California
Victoria Derr, Cristan Molinelli-Ruberto and Red Glines
6. Dispossession, Adolescence and the Missing Public Spaces of Hyderabad, India
Lyndsey Deaton
Part III: Indigenous Children and Young People
7. Aboriginal Australian Children’s Cross-Cultural Behaviors and Experiences: An Ecological Psychology Perspective
Angela Kreutz
8. Nature or Environment? Experiences, Feelings and Opinions of Children from Indigenous Peoples
Yolanda Corona, Graciela Quinteros and Karla Morales
9. Ecological Place-Meaning of a Rural Island Environment through the Lens of Young Bajau Ubian in Sabah, Malaysia
Janatun Naim Yusof and Ismail Said
10. Cultivating my Culture: Educational Gardens as Places for Biocultural Revitalization in Early Childhood Education in an Indigenous Territory of Southern Chile
Rukmini Becerra-Lubies, Josefina Cortés, Tomás Ibarra and María de la Luz Marques
11. Indigenous Children’s Speculative Future Imaginaries of Place, Weathering and Ruination
Karen Malone
Part IV: Children and Young People with a Disability
12. Having a Say in Places to Play: Children with Disabilities, Voice and Participation
Helen Lynch, Rianne Jansens and Maria Prellwitz
13. Equitable Outdoor Play Design for Children and Families with Disabilities
Jeanette Fich Jespersen
14. Learning Environments for Students with Moderate and High Support Needs: Listening to Student Voices
Iva Strnadová, Joanne Danker, Leanne Dowse, Brydan Lenne, Dennis Alonzo, Michelle Tso, Julie Loblinzk and Sierra Angelina Willow
15. Sensemaking: The Environmental Experiences of Children with Disabilities in Primary School
Jacqueline McIntosh and Ana Sozinova
16. Excavating Solutions to Sociospatial-Textual Injustices with Girls of Color with Disabilities in Middle School and High School in the United States
Amanda L. Miller
Part V: Vulnerable Children and Young People
17. Supporting Young People with Vulnerabilities through the Provision of Quality Youth Center Environments
Katina Dimoulias
18. Uses, Meanings and Positioning of Children and Young People in the Urban Environment: The Case of an Informal Settlement in Bogotá, Colombia
Jaime Hernández-García, Claudia Tovar-Guerra and Isaac Salgado-Ramirez
19. Nature-Based Healing Environments Improve Critical Protective Factors Associated with Long-term Recovery from Trauma, Addiction and Homelessness for Young People
Julie Stevens and Tricia Neppl
20. Barriers to Wellbeing at School: Listening to the Environmental Experience of Young Girls in Bangladesh
Saira Hossain, Iva Strnadová and Joanne Danker
Part VI: Young People in the Justice System
21. Abolishing Youth Detention Centers: Rethinking Architectural Models for Australian Children and Young People Under Legal Custodial Orders
Elizabeth Grant and Beau de Belle
22. Keeping Kids Close: Can Juvenile Justice Detention Be a Place of Healing?
Sanne Oostermeijer and Matthew Dwyer
23. Youth Detention and Correctional Facilities in the US
Sarup R. Mathur, Heather Griller Clark and Kassandra Spurlock
Part VII: Refugees, Immigrants and Displaced Children and Young People
24. Healthy Environments for Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Children and Young People: A Biopsychosocial Lens
Lahiru Amarasena, Shanti Raman, Raghu Lingam and Karen Zwi
25. Institutional Logics and Children’s Participation: A Case Study of Artolution’s Public Art Projects in Internally Displaced Person (IDP) and Refugee Settlements
Robyn Mansfield
26. Immigration Detention Environments in Australia: Children’s Rights and Wellbeing
Sarah Mares and Anna Ziersch
Conclusion
Katina Dimoulias and Kate Bishop
Biography
Kate Bishop is Associate Professor, School of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Kate’s background in environment-behavior research underpins her teaching and research and her particular area of interest: children, youth and environments. She specializes in the research and design of environments for children with special needs; child and youth-friendly urban planning and design; and participatory methodologies with children and young people. Kate worked in private industry and government before becoming an academic.
Katina Dimoulias is a multidisciplinary researcher and academic in the School of Education, Western Sydney University. She received her doctorate in the areas of Environment and Behavior Studies from The University of Sydney. Her principal research focus is on children and youth populations experiencing vulnerabilities and their environmental experiences, learning environments and more recently nature-based community development approaches for adults. Katina is trained as an environmental designer and has consulted on the development of community service environments for young people experiencing vulnerabilities.
