Children and Their Environments : Learning, Using and Designing Spaces

orig.boards Minor rubbing. VG. 24x16cm, xiv,279 pp. Contents: Children's Understanding of Places: Scale in children's experience with the environment; The problem of lost children; Children's understanding of environmental representations: aerial photographs and model towns; Children's knowledge of countries; Children's Experience of Places: Learning neighbourhood environments: the loss of experience in a modern world; The classroom environment and children's performance - is there a relationship?; 'Sometimes birds sound like fish': perspectives on children's place experiences; Is contact with nature important for healthy child development? State of the evidence; Environmental child-friendliness in the light of the Bullerby Model; Adolescents' Worlds?: On the other side of the tracks: the psychogeographies and everyday lives of rural teenagers in the UK; The socio-environmental affordances of adolescents' environments; Children and the Design Process: Children as agents in sustainable development: the ecology of competence; Children and city design: proactive process and the 'renewal' of childhood; A learning-based approach to urban planning with young people...…