WG2 - Affordable Housing and Space for Outdoor Activities

According to the Cities for Children strategy „families with children should be provided with affordable housing and formal and informal public space to play”.

Moderation: City of Malmö, Sweden

Senior Moderators: City of Kaunas, Lithuania, City of Gent, Belgium, City of Zurich, Switzerland

Participating cities: Berne (Switzerland), Cologne (Germany), Dublin (Ireland) Gent, Kaunas (Lithuania), Oradea (Romania), Panevezys (Lithuania), Rijeka (Croatia), Stuttgart (Germany), Tartu (Estonia), Vilnius (Lithuania), Wroclaw (Poland), Zurich

Further interested cities: Essen (Germany), Sassari (Italy), Luxemburg (Luxemberg), Magdeburg (Germany), Malmö (Sweden)

Topics identified by the Working Group:

• Support to increase outdoor activities of children and young persons through innovative outdoor-space planning
• Participation of young persons in city planning
• Setting up academic advice to the WG

 

Draft standards for housing and outdoor by Working Group 2 (English)

Draft standards for housing and outdoor by Working Group 2 (German)

Meetings:

 

 

30 June 2009 in Suttgart

 

Protocol of the WG meeting on 30 June in Stuttgart

 

14 - 15 May 2009 in Gent

 

Protocol of the Meeting in Ghent 14 - 15 May 2009 

Program

 

Presentations by the City & University of Ghent:

City of Ghent: Ghent, a Creating City

City of Ghent: Housing Policy related to Youth

City of Ghent: Youth Policy in Ghent

City of Ghent: Play Layer

University of Ghent: Recognising urban public space as a co-educator

Paper by Sven de Fisscher, University of Ghent:
"The neighbourhood of children beyond playing - a social-pedagogical perspective"

 

3 - 4 April 2008 in Zürich

 

Protocol of the WG meeting on 3 - 4 April 2008 in Zürich

Further documents from the Zurich meeting:

• Photos from the WG meeting in Zurich on April 2008: set 1, set 2, set 3, set 4 (all copyright City of Zurich)
• "Stuttgart fun park" by Winfried Börner, City of Stuttgart
• "Zurich - City for Children" by Daniel Kurz, City of Zurich
• "Regenerating the Zurich Hardau district" by Jeremy Hoskyn, City of Zurich
• Pictures of collected standards in housing, Jürg Brühlmann (moderator), City of Zurich

• Opening speech by Zurich Councillor Gerold Lauber (in German only)
  
• "Children and Their Living Surroundings", presentation by Marco Hüttenmoser, Dokumentationsstelle Kind und Umwelt, Muri, Switzerland
• "Vision Zero - No Children Outdoors - No Traffic Accidents" by Marco Hüttenmoser
• "The contribution of good public spaces to social integration", Marco Hüttenmoser
• The situation in Panevezys, presentation by Viktor Trofimov

 

7 May 2008 in Stuttgart

 

Protocoll of the WG meeting in Stuttgart, May 7, 2008

 

Further documents for download:

More information on current projects in the family-friendly housing sector in Zurich (only available in German):

• Zürich und Eurocities
  
• Jugendprojekte in Zürich
• Leben in Zürich
• Wohnen in Zürich mit Kindern
  
• Mit Kindern in Zürich
• Gemeinschaftszentren
• Partizipation
• Kunstprojekt
• Grün Stadt Zürich (Spielplätze)
• Grün Stadt Zürich (Naturschulen)

 

And in English:

• Competitive Locations - Liveable Cities

 

 

Documents from the Founding Forum on June 2007:

Protocoll of the WG meeting on June 25 and 26, 2007
Presentation by Jürg Brühlmann, City of Zurich
Presentation by Marianne Labre, City of Gent
Presentation by Dr. John McKendrick, Glasgow University

See good-practice examples for this WG

Last updated on 17 September 2008