Playing out: A study into children's use of public space in 1970s housing estates

在英国，儿童肥胖和缺乏运动是一个日益严重的问题，影响着儿童的健康和经济。通过户外游戏增加儿童的活动具有积极的影响，但人们对如何实现这一目标知之甚少。本研究项目旨在调查环境因素对儿童独立行动能力和户外游戏能力的积极影响。它采用了一种创新的方法，通过重新审视20世纪70年代的一段时期，当时儿童自由使用公共空间的能力在他们的发展中被更广泛地视为重要的概念。以20世纪70年代两个开创性的议会地产为案例研究，泰恩河畔纽卡斯尔的Byker地产和伦敦的alexandrroad地产，研究了它们是如何设计的，以满足儿童的需求。然后调查了生活在那里的不同世代的孩子是如何使用公共空间的。这使我们能够探索这些屋邨的属性和社会态度对儿童玩耍能力的积极或消极影响的程度，以找出今天的屋邨规划是否有借鉴意义。

Childhood obesity and inactivity is a growing problem in the UK with impacts on children's health andthe economy. Increasing children's activity through outdoor play has positive impacts but not enoughis known about how to achieve this. This research project aims to investigate the environmental factorswhich can positively influence children's independent mobility and outdoor play. It takes an innovativeapproach to doing this through re-visiting a period in the 1970s when children's ability to use publicspace freely was more widely conceptualised as being important in their development. Taking twopioneering 1970s council estates as case studies, Byker Estate in Newcastle upon Tyne and AlexandraRoad Estate in London, it examines how they were designed to meet the perceived needs of children.It then investigates how different generations of children living there have used public space. Thisenables an exploration of the extent to which attributes of these estates and social attitudes positivelyor negatively impact on children's ability to play out to find out whether there are lessons for theplanning of housing estates today.