Publications - General

• Books
  1. NEW !   Ndlovu, S. Babiza's Story UNESCO-MOST "By Children For Children" Series, No.1, UNESCO and HIVAN, 2004.
  2. Chawla, L. (Ed.) Growing Up in an Urbanising World. Paris / London: UNESCO Publishing / Earthscan, 2002.
  3. Driskell, D. Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth. A Manual for Participation. Paris / London: UNESCO Publishing / Earthscan, 2002.
  4. Lynch. K. (Ed.) Growing Up in Cities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977.
  5. Lynch, K. “The Spatial World of the Child,” in W. Michelson, S. Levine & E. Michelson (Eds.), The Child in the City, vol. 1, University of Toronto Press, 1979, pp. 102-127.
  6. PLA Notes 42 (Notes on Participatory Learning and Action)
     Special issue on: "Children's Participation: Evaluating Best Practices", October 2001
     This special issue presents a set of case studies, analytical papers and useful methods for supporting and evaluating children's participation in the development process. Based on a symposium held at the University of Oslo in the summer of 2000 which was jointly sponsored by the MOST Programme of UNESCO and Childwatch International, it addresses a series of questions: What happens when children participate in community development? What are their own beliefs and attitudes about their participation? How can organisations know that participatory processes are in fact in the best interests of the children themselves and the settings of which they are a part? How can governments and organisations effectively support the most beneficial forms of participation? Written by development experts and child researchers from the North and the South, this issue shares research and reflection on these topics. Read more ...

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• Book Chapters
  1. Chawla, L. "Neighbourhood Quality in Children's Eyes," co-authored with Karen Malone. In Children in the City, edited by Margaret O'Brien & Pia Christensen. London: Falmer Press, forthcoming.
  2. Chawla, L., and Salvadori, I. “Children for cities and cities for children,” in Understanding Ecosystems, edited by Alan Berkowitz, Karen Hollweg and Charles Nilon. New York: Springer-Verlag, in press.
  3. Swart Kruger, J., and Chawla, L. “Children show the way: Participatory programs for children of South African streets and squatter camps,” in Youth in Cities, edited by William Julius Wilson and Marta Tienda, New York: Cambridge University Press, in press.
     
     
• Articles
  1. Chawla, L. “Special place?–What is that? Significant places in the lives of children in a Johannesburg squatter camp,” Michigan Quarterly Review, 2000, 39(2): 378-398.
  2. Chawla, L. “Putting young-old ideas into action: The relevance of Growing Up in Cities to Local Agenda 21,” Local Environments, in press for fall 2000.
  3. Chawla, L. "Growing Up in Cities: A project to involve young people in evaluating and improving their urban environments,” Zero to 25, October 1998 (Dutch version). Reprinted in abridged form in Environment and Urbanization, 1998, 9 (2): 247-251.
  4. Chawla, L., and Kjorholt, A. T. "Children as special citizens," PLA Notes (Participatory Learning & Action), 1996, 25: 43-46.
  5. Griesel, R. D., Swart Kruger, J., and Chawla, L. "Children in South Africa can make a difference: An assessment of Growing Up in Cities in Johannesburg." Paper submitted for publication in a special issue of Childhood in honor of Sharon Stephens
  6. Driskell, D., Bannerjee, K., and Chawla, L. "Rhetoric, Reality and Resilience: Overcoming Obstacles to Young People's Participation in Development." Environment and Urbanization, April 2001, Vol. 13 (1).
  7. Chawla, L. ""Insight, creativity and thoughts on the environment": integrating children and youth into human settlement development 11" Environment and Urbanization, October 2002, Vol. 14 (2).
     
  8. Swart Kruger, J., and Chawla, L. ""We know something someone doesn't know": children speak out on local conditions in Johannesburg 85" Environment and Urbanization, October 2002, Vol. 14 (2).
     
     
• Reports
1. Growing Up in Caracas, Venezuela. This summary is abridged from “Growing Up in the Barrio: Perceptions of the Environment” by Maria Angelica Sepulveda, Gloria López, and Yuherqui Guaimaro - CENDIF (Center for Research on Childhood and the Family), also available in Spanish (in PDF format).