This resource is part of a collection called Children and Young People.
Webinar recording
Many European cities are embracing child-friendly planning and urban design. This webinar explored four inspirational case studies from Spain, Slovakia, Albania and Germany that offer insight and practical lessons that can be applied in the UK.
The webinar was a collaboration between the TCPA and Tim Gill, childhood expert and author of Urban Playground: How child-friendly planning and design can save cities.
The webinar includes presentations from:
- Maria Truñó Salvadó, Director, Alliance Education 360 on the Plan for Play – transforming Barcelona into a ‘played city’.
- Sandra Štasselová, Urbanist on creating a healthy and safe city for all children in Bratislava by transforming streets into safe spaces where children can move freely and live active lives.
- Simon Battisti, Executive Director, Qendra Marrëdhënie, on the Tirana School Streets programme, reallocating and transforming street space for children and their care-givers outside of schools.
- Anna Schledorn, Youth Welfare Planner, Child Friendly City Coordinator on the child-friendly approach in Regensburg, including youth participation and creating family and child friendly living environments and public spaces.
The TCPA’s wider work on children and young people
This webinar forms part of the TCPA’s wider work on children, young people in the built environment including:
- Raising the healthiest generation in history: why it matters where children and young people live – recommendations and evidence review from the 2024 Levelling Up, Housing and Communities inquiry into children, young people and built environment.
- Developing Well conference – the conference explored the relationship between children, young people and the built environment, the critical importance of creating healthy places in which they can thrive, challenges and opportunities and highlighted case studies of place-based practice from local authorities and the private sector.
- Homes and neighbourhoods for children and young people – a webinar exploring why planning and the built environment matters for healthy and thriving children and young people and how to engage with children and teenagers about 20-minute neighbourhoods and place.
Photo credit: Qendra Marrëdhënie (Tirana, Albania)
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