Designing for Children in Your Community; A Child Friendly Edmonton Event

Edmonton is Canada's youngest major city and is committed to ensuring that Edmonton's children have a great city to grow up in. A large component of children's experience in childhood is the physical spaces and places with which they interact. Child friendly urban planning and design considers the needs, perspectives and challenges that children face in navigating the physical world.

Child Friendly Edmonton is excited to present a unique opportunity to learn from an internation expert in child friendly urban planning, Tim Gill. Tim is an independent scholar, writer and consultant based in London. He is a global advocate for children’s everyday freedoms, and for a balanced approach to risk in childhood. His work cuts across planning, urban design, education, child care and recreation.

The New York Times described Tim’s 2007 book No Fear: Growing up in a risk-averse society as “a handbook for the movement for freer, riskier play.” In 2017- 2018 he completed a fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to study child-friendly urban planning in Canada and Europe.

Tim is a Design Council CABE Built Environment Expert, and a former director of the Children’s Play Council (now Play England). He co-authored the Greater London Authority’s first supplementary planning guidance on children’s play and wrote a GLA report on reconnecting children with nature. In 2002, he led the UK government’s first comprehensive review into children’s play.

Tim’s website is www.rethinkingchildhood.com.

A detailed agenda will be provided approximately one month prior to the event.

By attending this Event you will :

• Learn about child friendly urban planning and design from an international expert.

• Network with other citizens interested in designing and planning urban spaces with children in mind.

*This event is intended for individuals and organizations who have an interest in the planning and design of urban places and spaces.

Registration is limited. Supper will be provided.