An evocative and panoramic account of urban childhood. The myriad and subtle ways a child has used the street in the past ans still does today. A probing, caring and timely exploration of the ways in which the city can serve or fail children.

The Child in the City

Colin Ward

Pantheon Books

From the back of book...In an evocative and panoramic account of urban childhood. Colin Ward brings to life the myriad and subtle ways in which the child has used the street in the past and still does today. Against this background he asks whether it is true, as very many people believe, that something has been lost in the way children experience their urban surroundings; why some children show endless ingenuity in exploiting what the city offers while others are isolated and predatory; and what can be done, at a time when a significant proportion of the city's children have come to be at war with their environment, to make the links between city and child more fruitful and enjoyable for both.A probing, caring, and timely exploration of the ways in which the city can serve or fail children, this book raises urgent questions for teachers, parents, and policy-makers. Colin Ward is renowned as a pioneer in urban education and the founder-editor of the BULLETIN OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION. He is the holder of a Leverhulme Fellowship for the interpretation of the build environment and the author of STREETWORK: THE EXPLODING SCHOOL: VANDALISM: BRITISH SCHOOL BUILDINGS: and TENANTS TAKE OVER.

Pantheon

An account of life on the terraces in the 1970s and 80s, this book is an inside story of a football fan. Colin Ward's experiences at Arsenal, Chelsea and England matches, at home and abroad and his experiences of camaraderie and confrontations, chavinism, hatred and colourful terrace characters are charted. He is outspoken on drunkenness, racism and unprovoked viciousness and has harsh words to say about the attitude of politicians and the media to football hooliganism.

Steaming In: Journal of a Football Fan

Biographies & Memoirs

SIMON SCHUSTER (TRADE DIVISION)

In Welcome, Thinner City, Colin Ward challenges our preconceptions about the historical past, and about the state of our cities today. He shows, with a host of examples from several countries, that poor city dwellers can rehouse themselves, given the access to credit that the affluent take for granted. The experience of Italian cities is used to show the potential of a high-technology, small-workshop urban economy. While rooted thoroughly in the present, the books looks forward to the low-density, thinner and greener city of the twenty-first century. It is, in the author's own words, a book that "supports no party and no programme, and is addressed to citizens of all parties and none, since an understanding of the issues involved in the crisis of the cities is a prerequisite of citizenship."

Welcome, Thinner City: Urban Survival in the 1990s (Society Today)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Bedford Square Press

"This book is an attempt to explore the relationship between children and their urban environment. It asks whether it is true, as very many people believe it to be true, that something has been lost in this relationship, and it speculates about the ways in which the link between city and child can be made more fruitful and enjoyable for the child and the city. "But the title, and perhaps the very concept, are open to criticism because they imply that it is possible to speak in general terms about either children on cities. We need to be reminded, as Margaret Mead never fails to remind us, that 'It's a good thing to think about the child as long as you remember that the child doesn't exist. Only children exist. Every time you lump them together we lose something'…" (From the Introduction)

The Child in the City (Society today)

NCVO Publications

The Child in the Country (Society Today)

The child in the city

Architectural Press

Images of Childhood in Old Postcards

Tim Ward

Historical

Sutton Pub Ltd

With chapters on the family, topless federations, schools, housing, crime, employment, welfare, deviancy, planning, and more, this is probably the best practical example of anarchist ideas in action. As he writes in his introduction "This book is not intended for people who had spent a lifetime pondering the problems of anarchism, but for those who either had no idea of what the word implied or knew exactly what it implied and rejected it, considering that it had no relevance for the modern world. My original preference as a title was the more cumbersome but more accurate 'Anarchism As A Theory Of Organization' because, as I urge in my preface, that is what the book is about. It is not about strategies for revolution and it is not involved in speculation on the way an anarchist society would function. It is about the ways in which people organize themselves in any kind of human society, whether we care to categorize those societies as primitive, traditional, capitalist or communist...

Anarchy in Action

Politics & Government

Freedom Press

Ten lectures which highlight the essentials of libertarian thought and practice concerning schooling and education more widely, provide vivid illustrations of the effects of the important state legislation in Britain on education since 1945 and pose a serious challenge to contemporary educational orthodoxy.

Talking Schools

Philosophy

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The Child in the City

The Child in the City

Steaming In: Journal of a Football Fan

Welcome, Thinner City: Urban Survival in the 1990s (Society Today)

The Child in the City (Society today)

The Child in the Country (Society Today)

The child in the city

Images of Childhood in Old Postcards

Anarchy in Action

Talking Schools