Child Friendly Cities between theoretical conceptualization and real perception: Capturing the children's perspectives to the city; a pilot case study in GCR.

Abstract

The agenda of urban development is meeting challenges worldwide, and it has been ratified prior on the international scene. Comprehensive actions are taken globally and on governmental scales aimed to make such environments contribute to the positive changes in the future. Children, who are future adults, have their complete rights to engage and participate in developing and creating their surrounding urban environments. Many researches focused on child friendly urbanism and children's participation in their communities. Yet, this study will focus on mapping the perception of children to their surrounding living environments, and the ability of developing this perception to contribute productive participation towards urban spaces developments. Therefore, the study drew good prioritization exercises to Cairene children through several workshops, to stand on Egyptian children's perception of their urban surrounding environmental spaces.