Exploring the Relationship between Design Approach and Play Value of Outdoor Play Spaces
East Midlands ; England ; Kit Fence Carpet playground ; Landscape ; Leisure ; Outdoor play space ; Outdoor recreation ; Recreational space ; United Kingdom ; design ; play ; play value
The paper reports research that explores the relationship between approaches to the design of outdoor play spaces and the play value of these spaces. It starts by explaining that there is an assumption that an outdoor space in the Kit, Fence, Carpet
(KFC) style provides fewer opportunities for play than spaces designed in a more natural way. To test this hypothesis an evaluation tool is developed that draws upon a range of academic literature. This tool was tested on 10 sites in the East Midlands
in England. The results indicate that there is a continuum between KFC and more natural spaces with a mid-category of ‘composite’ spaces.#This paper reports research that explores the relationship between approaches to the ‘design’ of outdoor play spaces
and the play value of these spaces. The paper starts by explaining that there is an assumption that an outdoor space in the Kit, Fence, Carpet (KFC) style provides fewer opportunities for play than spaces designed in a more natural way. To test this hypothesis
an evaluation tool is developed that draws upon a range of academic literature. The tool includes three dimensions of Play Value, Physical Characteristics of the site and the Environmental Characteristics of the site. This tool was tested on 10 sites in the East
Midlands in England. The results indicate that there is a continuum between KFC and more natural spaces with a mid-category of ‘composite’ spaces. Play value increases along this continuum between the two styles while characteristics such as the amount
A tripartite conceptualisation of urban public space as site for play : evidence from South Bank, London
This article analyses a tripartite conceptualisation of urban public space as site for play through evidence from South Bank, London. It draws on ethnographic data to argue that play is a recurrent trait of sociospatial practices enacted in public
space. Three interrelated typologies of playful practices in public space are discussed : child's play, plays on meaning, and play as a simulation.
The title of this symposium represented in this special issue, properly conveys the application of information from geology to the concerns of society. The A. has chosen to discuss geomorphology at play, not to contrast it with work, but rather
to point out what it sometimes called play. Each of the papers represents a contribution to the better utilization and management of natural resources based on an understanding of the geomorphology of the system, including its form and processes.
Teach the native to play : social control and organized Black sport on the Witwatersrand, 1920-1939 in South Africa. Geography in a state of emergency.
The Creation of Play Spaces in Twentieth-century Amsterdam: From an Intervention of Civil Actors to a Public Policy
Amsterdam ; Children ; Netherlands (The) ; Play spaces ; Public space ; Recreation area ; Urban area ; Urban history ; children ; public space ; urban history
This case study uncovers a turning point in the production of play space in Amsterdam. Whereas over the first half of the twentieth century the creation of play spaces used to be the primary responsibility of the Amsterdam civil society
, this situation started to change after the Second World War. Between 1947 and 1970, the Amsterdam Urban Planning Department created over 700 public play spaces. These spaces were little niches in the urban public domain, specifically designed and constructed
to enable city children's play. This remarkable change from a predominantly private to a public intervention, is explained through a rapid increase of the number of children (the post-war baby-boom), the existence of the General Extension Plan (AUP) with its
Irrigation plays a major role in improving agricultural production to cater to the needs of increasing world population. It is to be noted that in countries with advanced technologies, the water use per hectare is about half that of the less
advanced. Thus, new irrigation technology and modern methods of irrigation will play an important part in the achievement of improved irrigation efficiency.
Spaces of play, spaces of responsibility : creating dichotomous geographies of outdoor citizenship
are positioned as places of play, ignorance and recklessness in which mountain bikers can belong, whilst mountains are constituted as places of responsibility, quiet contemplation and seriousness, in which mountain bikers are out of place. Such spatialisation
, setting practices of play and responsibility in opposition to each other, is flagged as problematic in relation to the actualisation of citizenship entitlements, and in turn meeting a range of societal goals for health, wellbeing and ecological knowledges
. Despite arguments that play is generative (rather than the ‘other’) of responsibility, there is evidence to suggest that such a dichotomy could become more materially realised, with implications for the ability of citizens to access and share space
Enriching children, institutionalizing childhood? Geographies of play, extracurricular activities, and parenting in England
to working-class families. It concludes that support across the class spectrum for these instrumental forms of play that institutionalize childhood in school, community, and commercial spaces leads to calls for subsidized provision for low-income children