Global Designing Cities Initiative resources
Check out GDCI’s free resources and guides to design streets for people: Planning a street project near schools or for children? Use the Reverse Periscope or download the Designing Streets for Kids guide. Want to collect data on the impact of a street project? Get the How to Evaluate Street Transformations [...]
Study finds ‘Forest bathing’ is the route to better mental health for urban youth
Child in the City (29 February 2024) share new study findings from Canada. These show that incorporating nature into how cities are designed can help significantly improve the mental health of young people living in urban settings.
City lover or Nature lover?
This Finding Nature post (6 February 2024) shares recent research which explores different responses to green and urban spaces, depending on people’s degrees of nature connectedness.
Discover and record urban nature, and take part in educator training
Checkout this great online resource provided by the Natural History Museum to discover urban wildlife. Take part in the Nature Recording Hub and do some great Citizen Science! The Explore: Urban Nature programme provides training for teachers, curriculum-linked learning resources and hands-on outdoor workshops, linked with a museum near you. [...]
Dundee’s positive changes
This post on Scottish Pollinators (21 November 2023) shares the great strides Dundee City Council has been making to implement a range of measures to help biodiversity across the city.
Nature connection Dutch style – a walking forest?
Would you like a breath of fresh air? Check out this amazing BOSK Youtube video of a ‘walking forest’ in the northern Dutch city of Leeuwarden. The event is also described in this article in The Guardian (4 August 2022).
Playing outdoors: What do children do, where and with whom?
In their October newsletter, Play Scotland share findings from a study in the Netherlands, February 2022 to March 2023. This recorded children’s play behaviour after school in three post-war residential districts in three cities in The Netherlands. This study showed differences in play behaviour by gender, age, district and play [...]
Cities bring together the world’s youth on climate change and sustainable urban development
Child in the City (5 July 2023) describes how a global coalition of city mayors has launched a new network designed to help connect young climate activists across the globe. This article shares a number of useful initiatives. For example, how city governments are working with young people through C40’s Students [...]
