Child Friendly City as a Participatory approach to enhance sustainable development: Case of Mingdong Community, Ningbo.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to introduce a model in children active participation mythologies in the community design process. It is divided in to three parts in addition to the introduction and conclusion. the first part is literature review introducing children, the Child friendly urban planning as a concept, children participation approaches, and sustainable development. The second part is the methodological approach proposed by author to reach a prototype model for children participation in community design process. The third part is presenting model empirical application on Ningbo china followed by discussion and conclusion parts. The prototype model was developed during YPPs workshop conducted by ISOCARP in Ningbo 2019. The YPP workshop presented an initial step to encourage child friendly Urbanism and shape their knowledge. The model combined child rights and sustainable urban development by answering three questions: How do the younger generations experience and perceive the city? How may Mingdong be imagined as a community that welcomes children? How should you proceed? The case study presented a testing ground for the task of enhancing Community children to participate actively and be core of development process during all phases.