Full Description
This edited volume explores how global issues such as urbanisation, globalisation, digital practice, and global warming are experienced and interpreted by young people in their local contexts. Drawing on research from 13 countries and 20 study sites, this volume examines how adolescents perceive urban space and how their environments shape their daily lives. The broader research in this volume builds upon participatory action research practices and principles that aim to empower young people by giving them a voice and supporting their agency in decision making. These approaches are used to advocate for youth health and wellbeing in contemporary urban contexts across Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Germany, Lebanon, Nepal, the Netherlands, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Nigeria, the Philippines and the United States of America. The research project focuses on low-income communities undergoing rapid change, examining ways to engage minority and youth populations in informal settlements who are particularly reliant on the resources of their immediate environments and whose circumstances hold significant implications for urban policy. Providing a broad-ranging and comparative perspective on young people's experience of urban life, this volume offers valuable insights for students, researchers, social workers and policymakers concerned with youth wellbeing, urban and community development and related fields.
Contents
Growing Up In Cities III: Introduction and Background.- Introduction: Growing Up in Cities - A New Generation in the Early 21st Century.- Involving Children and Young People in Participatory Research.- The History of Growing Up In Cities: 50 Years of Young People Telling Us What Works, What Doesn't and What Needs to Change.- Growing Up In Cities III: Collaborations.- Growing Up In Braybrook, Australia: A Setting of Youth and Urban Change.- Growing Up In Geelong, Australia: Together in the Face of Inequality.- Growing Up In Logan, Australia: Beenleigh's Young People Urge for a Greener, more Walkable, Diverse and Affordable Future.- Growing Up In Montreal, Canada: Comm(unity) in the City, Cultivating the Change.- Growing Up In La Ermita de San Antonio, Chile: Invisible Nature.- Growing Up In Chengdu, China.- Growing Up in Tianjin, China: How Do Young People Play in the Community Neighbourhoods?.- Growing Up In Bogotá, Colombia: Urban Narratives and Political Subjectivities in Informal Settlements.- Growing Up In Soacha, Colombia: Exploring the Impact of Public Spaces on Young People in Informal Settlements in the Altos del Pino Neighbourhood.- Growing Up In Berlin, Germany: Online, Offline and Hybrid Spatial Practices of Young People.- Growing Up In Karantina, Lebanon: Young People Growing Up In Lebanon Amidst Multiple Crises.- Growing Up In Banshighat, Nepal: Voices of Young People in a Marginalised Community.- Growing Up In Tanthof, the Netherlands: Playing Outdoors in a Middle-class, Low-rise District.- Growing Up In Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland, Aotearoa / New Zealand.- Growing Up In Lagos, Nigeria: Place Attachment, Place Making and Urban Aspirations in Makoko.- Growing Up In Manila, Philippines.- Growing Up in Urban United States: Young People in Public Spaces.- Cities and Young People: Global Learning from GUIC Projects and Applying this Knowledge for Positive Change.- Appendix.
