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The Science of Play
Poor design and wasted funding characterize today's American playgrounds. A range of factors-including a litigious culture, overzealous safety guidelines, and an ethos of risk aversion-have created uniform and unimaginative playgrounds. These spaces fail to nurture the development of children or promote playgrounds as an active component in enlivening community space. Solomon's book demonstrates how to alter the status quo by allying data with design. Recent information from the behavioral sciences indicates that kids need to take risks; experience failure but also have a chance to succeed and master difficult tasks; learn to plan and solve problems; exercise self-control; and develop friendships. Solomon illustrates how architects and landscape architects (most of whom work in Europe and Japan) have already addressed these needs with strong, successful playground designs. These innovative spaces, many of which are more multifunctional and cost effective than traditional playgrounds, are both sustainable and welcoming. Having become vibrant hubs within their neighborhoods, these play sites are models for anyone designing or commissioning an urban area for children and their families. The Science of Play, a clarion call to use playground design to deepen the American commitment to public space, will interest architects, landscape architects, urban policy makers, city managers, local politicians, and parents.
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Metodi e strumenti a supporto del programma sperimentale \Dateci spazio\
The European Community has adopted a contractual-performance mode of managing community funds, in which the funding disbursement is contingent on the achievement of specific measured results. Among these, the \"Dateci Spazio\" Programme (literally \"Give us space\") is part of a broad process of equitable and inclusive regen-eration of urban habitats and green infra-structure, promoting the creation of play-grounds in municipalities with populations over 300,000. The paper returns applica-tion research aimed at defining a process and tools to implement this experimental Programme generating accessible, inclusive, and universal habitats. Keywords: Planning; Building process; Equitable and incluswe regeneration; Play-grounds; Green infrastructure. Per gioco si intende qualsiasi \"attivita liberamente scelta a cui si dedichino, singolarmente o in gruppo, bambini o adulti sen-za altri fini immediati che la ricreazione e lo svago\" (Treccani, 2023): appare quindi evidente che, sottraendo il bambino da ogni necessita e bisogno, il gioco debba poter avvenire in modo libero e spontaneo, non strutturato, cosi da poter stimolare il rapporto con il tempo e lo spazio.
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On the playground
Playground safety rules are explained clearly, and readers are taught how to avoid dangerous equipment and irresponsible children as they play.
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Be safe on the playground
\"A boy teaches an alien from a planet with no gravity how to be safe on a playground\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Correction: Medici et al. Safety and Health Concerns for the Users of a Playground, Built with Reused Rotor Blades from a Dismantled Wind Turbine. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3626
In a few interviews after the paper’s publication, Superuse Studios declared that it would be appropriate and relevant to specify that they commissioned the initial research from where this research paper derives and that they provided a solution regarding one of the main issues after the commissioned research and before the publication of this research paper [...]
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