Wellbeing of Urban Space: Child-friendly Approaches Exploring the Contextual and Subjective Paradigm

Abstract

The environment in which children grows up plays a crucial role in their development. While urban areas offer bettereducational facilities, extracurricular activities, and diverse experiences, rapid urbanization poses unforeseenchallenges such as pollution, traffic, and loss of natural habitats. Adopting a child-friendly approach can redirect andalter the course of development in urban settlements. Solutions that benefit all stakeholders can be implementedby prioritizing the most vulnerable stakeholders. This paper is a systematic review of research literature that exploresthe relationship between the well-being of children, inhabitants and child-friendly approaches in the context ofurban space. It also brings the children's perspective and their experiences into focus to understand the perceptionand reality of risks in urban childhood spaces.