Who do you design a city for? Your answer is unlikely to focus on a baby or a child under the age of six—the age bracket that defines early childhood. Yet, a wide range of guidelines and actions can be taken to integrate this demographic into urban planning. After all, this is when a citizen's first interactions with urban life begin, making it essential to provide the most welcoming environment possible.
To explore how neighborhoods can become friendly to early childhood, the arbo platform has published a set of four guides to foster this approach. Drawing on the Brazilian context, they offer tools and knowledge to help urban managers and designers incorporate this perspective into their future practices. Explore them below.
