1997

In the eight Growing Up in Cities countries, project teams carried out intensive fieldwork from late 1996 through 1997. In June 1997, project leaders assembled for a second workshop in Trondheim, Norway to share preliminary results and to plan future work and publications. The workshop was followed by the Urban Childhood Conference in celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Trondheim. Growing Up in Cities was featured in a number of conference presentations and displays, and convened a conference workshop on “Participatory Practices for Involving Children in Urban Planning.”

In November 1997, the first of a two-part workshop series to spread project ideas and methods was held in Amsterdam under the joint sponsorship of the MOST Programme of UNESCO and the Averroes European Training Centre of the Netherlands. Representatives of the following cities attended: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Kigali, Rwanda; Yaounde, Cameroon; Mutare, Zimbabwe; Mumbai, India; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Tehran, Iran; Brasilia, Brazil; Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Goteberg, Sweden; and Bucharest, Romania. As they were encouraged to do, most cities sent a team of representatives.