Playborhood: turn your neighborhood into a place for play Lanza, Mike

Table of Contents:

Part I. What's the problem?

1. A social problem
2. Children and free time

Part II. How are neighborhoods solving this problem?

3. Yale Road : Menlo Park, Calif. : an oasis of play in an affluent suburb
4. Lyman Place : South Bronx, N.Y. : a safe refuge for play in a poor urban neighborhood
5. Share-it Square : Portland, Ore. : an intersection where kids and adults play
6. The waters : Pike Road, Ala. : A new urbanism community with a focus on family
7. The Playscape revolution : Iowa City, Iowa : A natural playscape in every yard
8. N Street : Davis, Calif. : A retrofit cohousing community
9. Dibble Avenue : Seattle : Frank the builder builds community
10. Iris Way : Palo Alto, Calif. : a neighborhood summer camp

Part III. How can I solve this problem?

11. Move to a potential playborhood
12. Create a neighborhood hangout
13. Keep kids' lives simple
14. Make a village
15. Encourage self-reliance
16. Let them roam with mobile phones.

In Playborhood: Turn Your Neighborhood Into a Place for Play, you’ll find inspiring stories of innovative communities throughout the US and Canada that have successfully created vibrant neighborhood play lives for their children. You’ll also get a comprehensive set of step-by-step solutions to turn around your family and neighborhood cultures, so that your kids can spend less time in front of screens and in adult-supervised activities, and more time engaging in joyful neighborhood play.

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