Children's Perception Of Place Friendliness In An Urban Neighborhood In Shiraz, Iran

Put differently, in spite of several publications on children and cities, in the last decades, the number of published literature on environmental child friendliness especially friendliness of the physical environment is limited. However, Kytta (2004) presented a hypothetical model of a child friendly environment, based on the covariation of opportunities for independent mobility and the actualization of affordances. She named this model a Bullerby-model, according to the ideal circumstances where children enjoy sufficient possibilities to move around independently in the environment and to perceive the environment as a reach source of affordances. More recently Chatterjee (2006) offered a six dimensional framework of place friendship, after doing a comprehensive interdisciplinary literature review; with the goal of filling the gap of lack of theoretical framework in understanding environmental child friendliness. This theoretical framework for environmental child friendliness is the most and the only comprehensive and recent concept in the literature. The new construct of plac