Towards the Future Design and Development of Cities with Built Environment Education: Experiences of Scale, Methods, and Outcomes

Abstract

Built environment education has produced various successful projects, in which children and youth develop and design visions on how their cities could become better places and in which the young citizen take responsibility and action to actually shape their environments. They demonstrate ways, to qualify the existing practice of public participation in architecture and urban planning. Research that based on positive experiences in practice shows short, intermediate and long-term changes and effects on participants, schools, the community and society at large or effects on the environment itself are missing.