TY - GEN AU - Gutman, Marta AU - Gutman, Marta AU - Coninck-Smith, Ning De TI - Designing modern childhoods: history, space, and the material culture of children SN - 9780813541969 U1 - 305.230904 PY - 2008/// CY - New Brunswick PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Children - History - Social conditions KW - Social life and customs - Architecture and children KW - Children's paraphernalia - Child consumers KW - Children and adults - History N1 - Table of Contents: PART ONE: Child Saving and the Design of Modern Childhoods 1 Connecting with the Landscape: Campfires and Youth Culture at American Summer Camps, 1890–1950 ABIGAIL A. VAN SLYCK 2 A (Better) Home Away from Home: The Emergence of Children’s Hospitals in an Age of Women’s Reform DAVID C. SLOANE 3 Sick Children and the Thresholds of Domesticity: The Dawson-Harrington Families at Home ANNMARIE ADAMS AND PETER GOSSAGE 4 The “Myers Park Experiment” in Auckland, New Zealand, 1913–1916 ANÉNE CUSINS-LEWER AND JULIA GATLEY PART TWO: The Choreography of Education and Play 5 A Breath of Fresh Air: Open-Air Schools in Europe ANNE-MARIE CHÂTELET 6 Molding the Republican Generation: The Landscapes of Learning in Early Republican Turkey ZEYNEP KEZER 7 Nomadic Schools in Senegal: Manifestations of Integration or Ritual Performance? KRISTINE JUUL 8 Adventure Playgrounds and Postwar Reconstruction ROY KOZLOVSKY PART THREE: Space, Power, and Inequality in Modern Childhoods 9 The View from the Back Step: White Children Learn about Race in Johannesburg’s Suburban Homes REBECCA GINSBURG 10 Children and the Rosenwald Schools of the American South MARY S. HOFFSCHWELLE 11 The Geographies and Identities of Street Girls in Indonesia HARRIOT BEAZLEY PART FOUR: Consumption, Commodification, and the Media: Material Culture and Contemporary Childhoods 12 Coming of Age in Suburbia: Gifting the Consumer Child ALISON J. CLARKE 13 Inscribing Nordic Childhoodsat McDonald’s HELENE BREMBECK 14 “Board with the World”: Youthful Approaches to Landscapes and Mediascapes OLAV CHRISTENSEN 15 Migrating Media: Anime Media Mixes and the Childhood Imagination MIZUKO ITO N2 - With the advent of urbanization in the early modern period, the material worlds of children were vastly altered. In industrialized democracies, a broad consensus developed that children should not work, but rather learn and play in settings designed and built with these specific purposes in mind. Unregulated public spaces for children were no longer acceptable; and the cultural landscapes of children's private lives were changed, with modifications in architecture and the objects of daily life. 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. (http://www.rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/product/978-0-8135-4464-9-Designing-Modern-Childhoods,2822.aspx?skuid=3319) ER -