Includes bibliographical references and index.
New perspectives on children in the city / Pia Christensen and Margaret O'Brien -- Place, space, and knowledge : children in the village and the city / Pia Christensen -- Children's views of family, home, and house / Gunilla Halldén -- "Displaced" children? risks and opportunities in a Caribbean urban environment / Karen Fog Olwig -- Shaping daily life in urban environments / Helga Zeiher -- Children in the neighbourhood-- the neighborhood in the children / Kim Rasmussen and Søren Smidt -- The street as liminal space : the barbed spaces of childhood / Hugh Mathews -- Neighbourhood quality in children's eyes / Louise Chalwa and Karen Malone -- Reviving children's neighbourhoods : what do children want? / Margaret O'Brien -- Improving the neighbourhood for children : possibilities and limitations of "social capital" discourses / Virginia Morrow -- Planning childhood : children's social participation in the town of adults / Claudio Baraldi.