Social Capital for a Child-Friendly City

This book argues for the importance of relationship networks (social capital) in children's growth and socialization. It explores how child-friendly social capital can be cultivated through urban planning and community development in cooperative housing, outdoor play spaces, streets, parks, and neighborhoods.

Isami Kinoshita is a Professor at Otsuma Women's University and Professor Emeritus at Chiba University. Mitsunari Terada (Charlie) is a landscape planner and researcher, and is an Assistant Professor at Nippon Sport Science University.

Part I Introduction: Children's Outdoor Play and Social Capital 1. Swinging in the Virtual Playground: Children's Perspectives on Green Time and Screen Time 2. Social Capital and Children's Outdoor Play Part II Cooperative and Collective Housing Spaces 3. Requirements of Community and Individual Development on Outdoor Space Design: From Freidorf, Switzerland 4. The "Ackermanbogen" in Munich as a Modern Child Friendly Urban Village 5. Child Rearing Social Capital of Collective Housing in Japan Part III Play Spaces and the Bullerby Model 6. Children's Planned and Unplanned Places of Play and Encounter in West-Herttoniemi, Helsinki 7. Bullerby and the Value of Physical Environments for Social Capital: A Swedish Example in Times of Change 8. Bullerby Children in Today's Japan: How They Play and Who Supports Them Part IV Streets, Parks, and Neighborhoods 9. Children's Outdoor Play and Social Capital: Insights from One London Housing Scheme 10. Sharing the Street and Town is Essential for Children's Growth: From the Perspective of 'Machi Hoiku (Community-Embedded Nursery)' Part V Conclusion 11. Conclusion: Pattern Language to Raise Social Capital for a Child-Friendly City