A guide to the design and creation of playgrounds looks at their history and purpose, visits playgrounds around the world, examines current research, and suggests playground activities

The Complete Playground Book

Provenzo, Eugene F.

Moore, Robin C.

Brett, Arlene

Parenting & Relationships

Syracuse Univ Pr

Drawing on the results of field studies, Childhood's Domain looks at the ways in which children use the urban environment for play and learning. It is a look at the world through children's eyes: how they perceive their surroundings, how they claim territory as their own, and how the physical environment contributes to their development and learning. The book concludes with policy recommendations for urban planners, designers, and decision-makers.

Childhood's Domain: Play and Place in Child Development

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Mig Communications

The award-winning Play for All Guidelines has become the industry standard for all planners, designers, and managers of outdoor play settings. It is the most comprehensive design resource available for integrating children of all abilities in the same play area. It addresses the full range of play-related issues; safety and risk management, accessibility and integration, maintenance, and -- most importantly--child development. This revised edition reflects the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the current U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's guidelines for public play areas.

Play for All Guidelines: Planning, Designing and Management of Outdoor Play Settings for All Children

Education & Teaching

Goltsman, Susan M.

Schools & Teaching

Plants for Play: A Plant Selection Guide for Children's Outdoor Environments

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Follow authors Robin Moore and Herb Wong on a ten-year odyssey as they transform an ordinary asphalt schoolyard into a luch, naturalized environment. More than just a story, Natural Learning is an important guidebook for teachers, administrators, designers, and parents on how to create, redevelop, and use naturalized schoolyards.

Natural Learning: The Life History of an Environmental Schoolyard

Science & Math

Wong, Herbert H.

Nature & Ecology

Childhood's Domain: Play and Place in Child Development (Psychology Library Editions: Child Development)

Where do children go and what do they do outdoors? How do they evaluate their own environment? What are their likes and dislikes? What would they like to see added or changed? How can the outdoor environment support healthy child development? How is the impact of the environment affected by its social and physical characteristics? How can its developmental impact be strengthened through public policy? 
These are some of the questions addressed by Childhood’s Domain, originally published in 1986, in which children, as ‘expert’ research collaborators, describe their largely unseen life outdoors. On field trips to secret play places around their homes, in streets, in parks, and in places laid waste and abandoned by adult society, they reveal both the pleasure and difficulties of play in the city. A central concept of the book is a new term, terra ludens, which represents the accumulated developmental support that each child receives from her or his personal play spaces. Terra ludens reflects the degree to which each child acquires an intuitive sense of how the world is by playing with it. 
Field research for the book was conducted in London, Stevenage New Town and Stoke-on-Trent. Neighbourhood sites were deliberately chosen to contrast and compare children’s reactions to the characteristics of ‘big city’, ‘new town’ and ‘old industrial city’ environments. The most interesting experiences were encountered with children in Stoke-on-Trent. Here, in former mineral workings functioning as ‘playgrounds’ equipped with relics from the heyday of the industrial revolution, in new open spaces reclaimed from industrial ‘wastelands’, and in older parks dating from Victorian times, children demonstrated the creative possibilities of a landscape of opportunities lacking in the other two sites. Even so, children in all three sites revealed great ingenuity in making do with whatever resources they could find to create viable play environments for themselves.

Childhood's Domain (Psychology Library Editions: Child Development)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

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