Neighborhoods that Nurture: Why The Play-Based Childhood Requires More Than Just Putting Down the Phone
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Neighborhoods that Nurture: Why The Play-Based Childhood Requires More Than Just Putting Down the Phone
David Brooks • The Relationalist Manifesto
We’ve found in our experiments with Smalltown that high quality participation on small social networks requires significant “social scaffolding.” Much of this scaffolding looks similar to what a local reporter or community organizer does. Connecting with people, asking questions, surfacing issues, building trust, and organizing. You can’t just buil... See more
Welcome to Smalltown, a Civic Space Online - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst
Frequent meetings in connection with daily activities increase chances of developing contacts with neighbors, a fact noted in many surveys. With frequent meetings friendships and the contact network are maintained in a far simpler and less demanding way than if friendship must be kept up by telephone and invitation. If this is the case, it is often
... See moreJan Gehl • Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space
Although play is natural for children, opportunities to play in a school setting, and even outside of it, can be minimal and uneven and many obstacles stand in the way of increasing and improving play time.