Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children
"At once cautionary and hopeful, Designing Modern Childhoods is an indispensable and incisive analysis of the special role of the built environment in both opening and foreclosing good futures for kids around the globe."\ -Michael Sorkin, director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at the City College of New York \ "From Turkish schools to New Zealand playgrounds and American summer camps, these essays offer a fresh and challenging take on the modern city from the perspective of its most...
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"At once cautionary and hopeful, Designing Modern Childhoods is an indispensable and incisive analysis of the special role of the built environment in both opening and foreclosing good futures for kids around the globe."-Michael Sorkin, director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at the City College of New York "From Turkish schools to New Zealand playgrounds and American summer camps, these essays offer a fresh and challenging take on the modern city from the perspective of its most overlooked residents."-Dell Upton, professor of art history, University of California, Los Angeles"This book takes the reader on a richly detailed and imaginative journey into the changing organization and meanings of childhood."-Barrie Thorne, professor of sociology, gender, and women's studies, University of California, Berkeley"This imaginative and original collection will play an important role in enhancing a growing interest in the history and sociology of childhood."-Peter Stearns, provost and professor of history, George Mason University In Designing Modern Childhoods, architectural historians, social historians, social scientists, and architects examine the history and design of places and objects such as schools, hospitals, playgrounds, houses, cell phones, snowboards, and even the McDonald's Happy Meal. Special attention is given to how children use and interpret the spaces, buildings, and objects that are part of their lives, becoming themselves creators and carriers of culture. The authors extract common threads in children's understandings of their material worlds, but they also show how the experience of modernity varies for young people across time, through space, and according to age, gender, social class, race, and culture. The foreword by Paula S. Fass and epilogue by John R. Gillis add additional depth to this comprehensive examination.Marta Gutman is an associate professor in the School of Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture at the City College of New York/CUNY.Ning de Coninck-Smith is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Sociology at the School of Education-Arhus University. New York Times - Kathryn Shattuck Designing Modern Childhoods circumnavigates the globe to examine how children have been cared for, emboldened, coddled, toughened up and even manipulated by adults who thought they knew best when it came to providing a child s physical world.
Foreword Paula S. Fass xiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction: Good to Think With-History, Space, and Modern Childhood Marta Gutman Ning De Coninck-Smith 1Child Saving and the Design of Modern ChildhoodsConnecting with the Landscape: Campfires and Youth Culture at American Summer Camps, 1890-1950 Abigail A. Van Slyck 23A (Better) Home Away from Home: The Emergence of Children's Hospitals in an Age of Women's Reform David C. Sloane 42Sick Children and the Thresholds of Domesticity: The Dawson-Harrington Families at Home Annmarie Adams Peter Gossage 61The "Myers Park Experiment" in Auckland, New Zealand, 1913-1916 Anene Cusins-Lewer Julia Gatley 82The Choreography of Education and PlayA Breath of Fresh Air: Open-Air Schools in Europe Anne-Marie Chatelet 107Molding the Republican Generation: The Landscapes of Learning in Early Republican Turkey Zeynep Kezer 128Nomadic Schools in Senegal: Manifestations of Integration or Ritual Performance? Kristine Juul 152Adventure Playgrounds and Postwar Reconstruction Roy Kozlovsky 171Space, Power, and Inequality in Modern ChildhoodsThe View from the Back Step: White ChildrenLearn about Race in Johannesburg's Suburban Homes Rebecca Ginsburg 193Children and the Rosenwald Schools of the American South Mary S. Hoffschwelle 213The Geographies and Identities of Street Girls in Indonesia Harriot Beazley 233Consumption, Commodification, and the Media: Material Culture and Contemporary ChildhoodsComing of Age in Suburbia: Gifting the Consumer Child Alison J. Clarke 253Inscribing Nordic Childhoods at McDonald's Helene Brembeck 269"Board with the World": Youthful Approaches to Landscapes and Mediascapes Olav Christensen 282Migrating Media: Anime Media Mixes and the Childhood Imagination Mizuko Ito 301Epilogue: The Islanding of Children-Reshaping the Mythical Landscapes of Childhood John R. Gillis 316Notes on Contributors 331Index 335
\ Kathryn ShattuckDesigning Modern Childhoods circumnavigates the globe to examine how children have been cared for, emboldened, coddled, toughened up and even manipulated by adults who thought they knew best when it came to providing a child’s physical world. \ — New York Times\ \
