Children's Participation in Urban Spaces and Language Ability Development:A Case Study on Child-Friendly Practices in Commercial Spaces
This study investigates the design and use of urban commercial spaces from a child's perspective,focus-ing on how child-friendly initiatives can foster inclusive public environments and enhance children's observation-al skills and language abilities.By engaging children as researchers through observation,experience,and inter-views in public spaces,the study creates opportunities for children to communicate directly with public space managers.The children then design and present their own child-friendly public spaces based on their findings.This paper outlines the process of empowering children to observe and articulate their views on commercial spac-es and discusses strategies for creating child-friendly discourse environments to boost children's language abili-ties and promote meaningful co-creation of public spaces.
child-friendlinesschildren participationpublic spacecommercial space