Play Streets Toolkit for Australian Local Government
Play Streets Toolkit for Australian Local Government is a resource that outlines the process for one-day play street pilots. This process can be applied to planning other pilot activities.
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, […]
Superpool & Urban95: Playground ideas for 0-3 years old
Playground ideas for 0-3 years old by Urban95 and Superpool is a compilation of design principles and ides for playgrounds specifically designed for the needs of babies and toddlers.
STIPO: The City at Eye Level for Kids
Check the City at Eye Level for Kids, a publication that offers numerous examples of child-focused projects from different urban contexts.
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.
IDEAS Impact Framework: Theory of Change
Explore the IDEAS Impact Framework on Theory of Change implementation for early childhood development.
Bernard Van Leer Foundation: Early Childhood Matters 2022 – Behavioural Science
Have a look at the Early Childhood Matters issue (2022) on behaviour change and behavioural science by the Bernard Van Leer Foundation.
KABOOM! & Gehl: Understanding Impact
Check the tool Understanding Impact by KABOOM! and Gehl, an evaluation study of play spaces that can inspire you to create your own evaluation framework.