Kraftl, P, Christensen, P, Horton, J et al. (1 more author) (2013) Living on a building site: Young people's experiences of emerging 'Sustainable Communities' in England. Geoforum, 50. pp. 191-199. ISSN 0016-7185
Abstract
This paper examines experiences of young people (9-16) who live in new communities that are under construction. In the context of large-scale housing developments, built in England after 2000, it analyses various ways in which young people engage with life 'on a building site'. From ethnographic research in three unfinished communities, several inter-linked themes became apparent: how young people engaged with building sites in both aesthetic and material registers; how building sites could, paradoxically, constitute places for both safer play and of significant risk; how such sites could afford sociability whilst simultaneously representing foci for intergenerational tensions. Thus, the paper contributes to studies of architecture/urban design, geographical studies of childhood, and expands a recent call for critical geographies of construction sites. In particular, we argue for the significance of building sites as important, often-overlooked times and places where meaning-making and everyday routines are fostered and normalised in new communities.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2013, the Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This article is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). |
Keywords: | Geographies of architecture; Urban design; Childhood and youth; Children’s geographies; Children’s mobilities; Materiality |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 05 Sep 2017 15:11 |
Last Modified: | 05 Sep 2017 15:11 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.08.009 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:106136 |