A City for Children

A City for Children
Author: Marta Gutman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0226311287
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We like to say that our cities have been shaped by creative destruction the vast powers of capitalism to remake cities. But Marta Gutman shows that other forces played roles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as cities responded to industrialization and the onset of modernity. Gutman focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings, and most tellingly she reveals the determinative roles of women and charitable institutions. In Oakland, Gutman shows, private houses were often adapted for charity work and the betterment of children, in the process becoming critical sites for public life and for the development of sustainable social environments. Gutman makes a strong argument for the centrality of incremental construction and the power of women-run organizations to our understanding of modern cities. "

Wake Up, City!

Wake Up, City!
Author: Erica Silverman
Publisher: little bee books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-08-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781499801736
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In this beautifully illustrated picture book, one little girl and her father are on their way to school as the whole city wakes up around them! The gumdrop sun rises high in the cotton candy sky. A woman stretches. She starts to run. The city morning has begun! The city is still fast asleep when a young girl and her father leave the house. But slowly, little by little, light starts to creep up over the buildings, and the city starts to wake up. As they walk through the drowsy streets, a woman begins her morning jog, street sweepers clean up the roads, stores begin to open, and food deliveries are made to stores and restaurants. Join these two on their morning walk to school through the city in this beautifully illustrated picture book.

A City for Children

A City for Children
Author: Marta Gutman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 022615615X
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American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed the urban fabric of these newly diverse, plural metropolises. In A City for Children, Marta Gutman focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place for children. She introduces us to the women who were determined to mitigate the burdens placed on working-class families by an indifferent industrial capitalist economy. Often without the financial means to build from scratch, women did not tend to conceive of urban land as a blank slate to be wiped clean for development. Instead, Gutman shows how, over and over, women turned private houses in Oakland into orphanages, kindergartens, settlement houses, and day care centers, and in the process built the charitable landscape—a network of places that was critical for the betterment of children, families, and public life. The industrial landscape of Oakland, riddled with the effects of social inequalities and racial prejudices, is not a neutral backdrop in Gutman’s story but an active player. Spanning one hundred years of history, A City for Children provides a compelling model for building urban institutions and demonstrates that children, women, charity, and incremental construction, renovations, alterations, additions, and repurposed structures are central to the understanding of modern cities.

THE MAGIC CITY - A Children's Fantasy Adventure

THE MAGIC CITY - A Children's Fantasy Adventure
Author: EDITH NESBIT
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2020
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8835898056
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THE MAGIC CITY is a children's book by E. Nesbit, first published in 1910. It initially appeared as a serial in The Strand Magazine. After Philip's older sister and sole family member Helen marries, he goes off to live with his new step sister Lucy. He has trouble adjusting at first, thrown into the world different from his previous life and abandoned by his sister while she is on her honeymoon. To entertain himself he builds a giant model city from things around the house: game pieces, books, blocks, bowls, etc. Then, through some magic, he finds himself inside the city, and it is alive with the people he has populated it with. Some soldiers find him and tell him that two outsiders have been foretold to be coming: a Deliverer and a Destroyer. Mr. Noah, from a Noah's Ark playset, tells Philip that there are seven great deeds to be performed if he wants to prove himself the Deliverer. Lucy, too, has found her way into the city and joins Philip as a co-Deliverer, much to his chagrin. What happens next? Well you’ll have to download the book to findout for yourself! 10% of the profit from the sale of this book is donated to charities. =================== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Magic City, edith Nesbit, fantasy, fiction, childrens story, fantasy tale, young people, switch, Philip, Lucy, Helen, model city, deliverer, destroyer, game pieces, soldiers, magic, mr noah, ark, playset, seven, great deeds, honeymoon, sister, outsiders, prove, pip, Peter Graham, Nurse, maid, chief judge, Mr. Perrin, carpenter, motor veil lady, Pretender-in-Chief, Claimancy, Deliverership, Pretenderette, Lord High Islander, Polistarchia, Polly, parrot, Max, Brenda, the dogs, Hippogriff, Great Sloth, Dragon slayer, Princess in distress, Disentangle, Mazy Carpet, Fear slayer, Dwellers, slay, Lions in the Desert: shared task, after the fact, Polistarchia, Fruit, Awake and Busy, free, Polistopolis, The Beginning, Lost, On The Carpet, Ups, Downs, Lightning, Loose', Night Attack, end, folklore, fairy tales, myths, legends, fables,

Children's Literature and New York City

Children's Literature and New York City
Author: Padraic Whyte
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135923000
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This collection explores the significance of New York City in children’s literature, stressing literary, political, and societal influences on writing for young people from the twentieth century to the present day. Contextualized in light of contemporary critical and cultural theory, the chapters examine the varying ways in which children’s literature has engaged with New York City as a city space, both in terms of (urban) realism and as an ‘idea’, such as the fantasy of the city as a place of opportunity, or other associations. The collection visits not only dominant themes, motifs, and tropes, but also the different narrative methods employed to tell readers about the history, function, physical structure, and conceptualization of New York City, acknowledging the shared or symbiotic relationship between literature and the city: just as literature can give imaginative ‘reality’ to the city, the city has the potential to shape the literary text. This book critically engages with most of the major forms and genres for children/young adults that dialogue with New York City, and considers such authors as Margaret Wise Brown, Felice Holman, E. L. Konigsburg, Maurice Sendak, J. D. Salinger, John Donovan, Shaun Tan, Elizabeth Enright, and Patti Smith.

Children, Youth and the City

Children, Youth and the City
Author: Kathrin Horschelmann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1134184131
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More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. Here, Horschelmann and van Blerk provide a vivid picture of children and youths in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions. Considering the causes and forms of social inequalities in relation to class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, ability and geographical location, this book discusses specific issues such as poverty, homelessness and work. Each chapter draws on examples and cases from both the developed and developing world, and throughout the chapters, it: contrasts experiences of growing up in the city focuses on urban youth culture, consumption and globalization considers contemporary movements towards the role of children and youths in planning processes. Horschelmann and van Blerk argue that youths must be recognised as urban social agents in their own right. Their informative book, though dealing with complex theoretical arguments, relates key ideas to this topical subject in a clear and coherent manner, making this book an excellent resource for students of human geography, urban studies and childhood studies.

Children’s Lifeworlds in a Global City: Melbourne

Children’s Lifeworlds in a Global City: Melbourne
Author: Clare Bartholomaeus
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2023-05-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9819905737
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This book examines the connections between policy, school experiences, and everyday activities of children growing up in the global city of Melbourne, Australia. It provides an in-depth consideration of Melbourne primary school children’s lifeworlds, exploring everyday stories and practices inside and outside of school. This includes consideration of the diverse ways that educational “success” may be understood in the context of Melbourne, productively moving beyond a narrow focus only on academic achievement. Situated alongside policy and curriculum analysis, the book draws on research in Melbourne Year 4 primary school classrooms in the form of student-completed surveys, classroom ethnographies, and student responses to a learning dialogues activity, as well as video re-enactments of out-of-school life. Through this it explores key aspects of children’s lifeworlds with a focus on school timetabling and pedagogical encounters, school engagement and belonging, and activities and everyday routines outside of school. This book offers a comprehensive and holistic exploration of children’s lifeworlds in Melbourne, drawing connections between children’s lives inside and outside of school, and the broader policy contexts.

Children in the City

Children in the City
Author: Pia Christensen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2003-08-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134512651
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This timely and thought-provoking book explores children's lives in modern cities. At a time of intense debate about the quality of life in cities, this book examines how they can become good places for children to live in. Through contributions from childhood experts in Europe, Australia and America, the book shows the importance of studying children's lives in cities in a comparative and generational perspective. It also contains fascinating accounts of city living from children themselves, and offers practical design solutions. The authors consider the importance of the city as a social, material and cultural place for children, and explore the connections and boundaries between home, neighbourhood, community and city. Throughout, they stress the importance of engaging with how children see their city in order to reform it within a child-sensitive framework. This book is invaluable reading for students and academics in the field of anthropology, sociology, social policy and education. It will also be of interest to those working in the field of architecture, urban planning and design.

Mothering Inner-city Children

Mothering Inner-city Children
Author: Katherine Brown Rosier
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780813527970
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Based on three years of interviews and observations with Indianapolis mothers, analyzing the families in their homes, schools and other social settings, this book brings forth the voices of mothers in creating a portrait of low-income African American families rearing children.

A City At War

A City At War
Author: Richard L. Pifer
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2014-03-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0870204823
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Milwaukeeans greeted the advent of World War II with the same determination as other Americans. Everyone felt the effect of the war, whether through concern for loved ones in danger, longer work hours, consumer shortages, or participation in war service organizations and drives. Men and women workers produced the essential goods necessary for victory—the vehicles, weapons, munitions, and components for all the machinery of war. But even in wartime there were labor conflicts, fueled by the sacrifices and tensions of wartime life. A City at War focuses on the experience of working men and women in a community that was not a wartime boom town. It looks at the stands of the CIO and the AFL against low wartime wages, and at women in unionized factories facing the perceptions and goals of male workers, union leaders, and society itself. Here is a social history of wartime Milwaukee and its workers as they laid the groundwork for a secure postwar future.