New guide offers city planners a child’s eye view

If you could experience the city from 95cm – the average height of a three-year-old – what would you change?

A new online guide seeks to answer this question, and provides tools and examples of how cities can modify the built environment to improve the health, education and security of vulnerable children under the age of five.

The Proximity of Care Design Guide from Arup and the Bernard van Leer Foundation is based on research and fieldwork in refugee and informal settlements in Kenya, Lebanon, Jordan and South Africa but the authors say its findings are also relevant to children living in deprived areas in cities everywhere.

Sara Candiracci, Associate Director, Arup International ...