Author: Charles

Bernard Van Leer Foundation and Urban95: Young Explorers series

In five short films produced by Urban95, toddlers take you along their daily hometown journeys in two very different cities – Pune in India and Recife in Brazil. Join Ahaan, Mokshada, Lulu, Elloah and Ze as they travel their streets with the people who care for them, and share the opportunities and challenges they encounter […]

Play Streets Toolkit for London

Play Streets Toolkit for London is a resource that outlines the process for one-day play street pilots. This process can be applied to planning other pilot activities.

Arup & Greater London Authority: Meanwhile Use London

Explore the Meanwhile Use London report, a piece of research by Arup and GLA (Greater London Authority) that illustrates, through a range of case studies, what are the challenges and opportunities of temporary urban interventions and how they can take many forms to achieve long-lasting benefits.

NACTO: Designing Streets for Kids

Designing Streets for Kids by NACTO offer a range of design standards and ideas for redesigning streets, so they are safe and stimulating for children and caregivers.

NACTO: Global Street Design Guide

Global Street Design by NACTO offer a range of design standards and ideas for redesigning streets, so they are safe and stimulating for children and caregivers.

The Outdoor PLAYbook: The 7 Cs

The 7 Cs is a set of design principles for outdoor play environments that connect to childhood development. This can help guide you while creating play spaces.

UCL & Catalytic Action: DeCID Handbook

DeCID Handbook: Co-designing built interventions with children affected by displacement is a guide developed by CatalyticAction and The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (UCL) that offers co-design principles for working in vulnerable areas.

ARUP: YARD augmented reality design app

YARD app is a digital, augmented reality tool that can help us imagine how a neighbourhood might change with the addition of different urban design assets. Have a look at how it works here.

Arup, LEGO Foundation & Real Play Coalition: Playful Cities Toolkit

Check the Playful Cities Toolkit to explore a set of co-creation tools for engaging with children. Developed by Arup and the LEGO Foundation in partnership with the Real Play Coalition, the Playful Cities Toolkit provides a range of resources to support local governments, urban practitioners and local communities to understand the complexity of play in cities, […]

Arup & Real Play Coalition: Nature-based play

Check the Nature-based Play publication which offers a set of actions that could be undertaken by different stakeholders, as well as best-practice examples of benefits that nature-based play generates for communities, and for our planet. This can serve as inspiration for a vision or its elements.