Abstract
The article considers the organization of urban and rural space in terms of their friendliness towards children and adolescents. The spatial characteristics of places, their assessment is studied in line with a new interdisciplinary direction - the geography of childhood, formed at the intersection of humanitarian geography and social studies of childhood. To collect empirical data, an essay method was chosen that provides children with the opportunity to describe their favorite place in the city. In total, 140 compositions were collected by schoolchildren aged 9–17 from the cities of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Astrakhan, Kaliningrad, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Cheremkhovo and the village of Dolgorukovo. The presented locations differ in their size, remoteness from the European part of Russia and the socio-economic opportunities for organizing space for children. Through geographical essays of children, which described their favorite places, the problems of studying the territory of residence in terms of spatial, socio-economic and subjective characteristics were solved.
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