Toward a green and playful city: Understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona

《Toward a green and playful city: Understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona》

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作者: Carmen Pérez del Pulgar;Isabelle Anguelovski;James Connolly

来源: CITIES,Vol.96,Issue1,Article 102438

语言: 英文

关键字: Barcelona;Children-nature-play;Urban environmental equity;Urban political ecology;Relational wellbeing;Environmental justice;Gentrification

作者单位: Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Edifici ICTA-ICP, Carrer de les Columnes s/n, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain;Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Campus de la UAB, Plaça Cívica, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain;Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ), Carrer del Dr. Aiguader, 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain;Mar Institute of Medical Research Foundation (IMIM), Carrer del Dr. Aiguader, 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain;Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain;Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Edifici ICTA-ICP, Carrer de les Columnes s/n, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain;Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Campus de la UAB, Plaça Cívica, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain;Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ), Carrer del Dr. Aiguader, 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain;Mar Institute of Medical Research Foundation (IMIM), Carrer del Dr. Aiguader, 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain;Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain

摘要: This paper examines recent urban green amenities directed toward children and families and develops a novel understanding of the ways in which children's socio-natures are made/unmade through such interventions. We employ ethnographic and archival analysis in two new parks – Poble Nou and Nou Barris – in Barcelona to examine how a particular type of children's wellbeing, what we call “relational wellbeing” is shaped through the production of green-playful-child-friendly amenities. We find that planning processes and visions, urban development goals, and neighbourhood socio-material structure moderate the effect of green-playful-child-friendly amenities on relational wellbeing by directing how these spaces are used. This finding points toward the importance – for equity concerns – of accounting for the social and political processes that generate relational wellbeing. These processes are often reflective of broader economic agendas of urban transformation designed to extract value, control space, and/or legitimize speculative urban development – while sometimes eroding local socio-material conditions – to the point of producing green spaces of privilege, exclusion and control. The connection between relational wellbeing and green-playful-child-friendly interventions highlights the importance, within the urban environmental equity literature, of reconceptualising pathways of wellbeing and health beyond questions of spatial distribution of natural areas and offers a new perspective for the development of future guidelines on green-playful-child-friendly space policies.

《Toward a green and playful city: Understanding the social and political production of children&#39;s relational wellbeing in Barcelona》

《Toward a green and playful city: Understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona》