Current research and case studies detailing the effects of urban development on outdoor space for children. Successful strategies for integrating children's needs into new development.

1. Contemporary urban development
in Sweden.
The Effect on Children’s Outdoor
Situation.
CHANGES IN BUILDING, PLANNING
AND USING.
Stockholm as a case in question.

2. Maria Nordström
Associate professor in psychology,
environmental psychologist and senior
researcher at
Stockholm University and the Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp
maria.i.nordstrom@slu.se

3. Ny Swedish Landscape
Sweden is a sparsely populated country with a population of 9 million
people. A process is now going on with a rapidly increasing concentration
of people to the big cities and in particular to Stockholm, the capital.
Stockholm, grows with approximately 40.000 new inhabitants
every year. The number of inhabitants today is ---.
There is an intense quest for land to build on in Stockholm.
Spaces not being used or built on are used for intensified building. Having
been a green city, Stockholm is now becoming a stone city, with
consequences for – among others – children, growing up and living there.

4. Stockholm
The capital of Sweden has a population, in the
centre and in its widespread suburban areas, of 1,4
million people. It grows with 40.000 people every
year.
Intensified building takes place in centrally located
areas. Any urban open space is attractive for
building. Conflicts arise over open spaces in the city.
One group of citizens hit by the intensified building
are children as open spaces disappear and traffic
grows.

5. Changes of behaviour, attitudes and
planning
From plenty of space to little outdoor space –
children are an interesting case

12. Children are involved in conflicts over space
in Stockholm
Two ”typical” Stockholm examples of conflicts over space BUT
with good outcomes for the children and for the city:
the Kungsholmen ’free school’ in a central location
and its new outdoor space, the Pipier-pocket
&
the Aspudden school-grounds in a semi-central location