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Children in the City

Opening context:
Parallel Roads, Promenade, Looped Local Roads, Bike Paths and Racks, Network of Learning

Conflict

If children are not able to explore the whole of the adult world around about them, they cannot become adults. But modern cities are so dangerous that children cannot be allowed to explore them freely.

Resolution

As part of the network of bike paths, develop one system of paths that is extra safe — entirely separate from automobiles, with lights and bridges at the crossings, with homes and shops along it, so that there are always many eyes on the path. Let this path go through every neighborhood, so that children can get onto it without crossing a main road. And run the path through the city, down pedestrian streets, through workshops, assembly plants, warehouses, interchanges, print houses, bakeries, all the interesting “invisible” life of a town — so that the children can roam freely on their bikes and trikes.

Closing context:
Street Windows, Connected Play, Adventure Playground, Shopfront Schools, Teenage Society