"At once cautionary and hopeful, Designing Modern Childhoods is an
indispensable and incisive analysis of the special role of the
built environment in both opening and foreclosing good futures for
kids around the globe." -Michael Sorkin, director of the Graduate
Urban Design Program at the City College of New York "From Turkish
schools to New Zealand playgrounds and American summer camps, these
essays offer a fresh and challenging take on the modern city from
the perspective of its most overlooked residents." -Dell Upton,
professor of art history, University of California, Los Angeles
"This book takes the reader on a richly detailed and imaginative
journey into the changing organization and meanings of childhood."
-Barrie Thorne, professor of sociology, gender, and women's
studies, University of California, Berkeley "This imaginative and
original collection will play an important role in enhancing a
growing interest in the history and sociology of childhood." -Peter
Stearns, provost and professor of history, George Mason University
In Designing Modern Childhoods, architectural historians, social
historians, social scientists, and architects examine the history
and design of places and objects such as schools, hospitals,
playgrounds, houses, cell phones, snowboards, and even the
McDonald's Happy Meal. Special attention is given to how children
use and interpret the spaces, buildings, and objects that are part
of their lives, becoming themselves creators and carriers of
culture. The authors extract common threads in children's
understandings of their material worlds, but they also show how the
experience of modernity varies for young people across time,
through space, and according to age, gender, social class, race,
and culture. The foreword by Paula S. Fass and epilogue by John R.
Gillis add additional depth to this comprehensive examination.
Marta Gutman is an associate professor in the School of
Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture at the City
College of New York/CUNY. Ning de Coninck-Smith is an associate
professor in the Department of Educational Sociology at the School
of Education-Arhus University.
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