EDRA / Places Award 2002

The Growing Up in Cities project has won the EDRA / Places Award 2002 - out of 115 candidates.

The EDRA / Places Awards are unique among the programs that recognise professional and scholarly excellence in environmental design. The program is distinguished by its interdisciplinary focus, its concern for human factors in the design of the built environment, and its commitment to promoting links between design practice and design research. Click here to read the description of the project and jury’s comments.

EDRA is the Environmental Design Research Association and Places is an international environmental design journal, both based in the USA.

REVIEWS

• Chawla, L. (Ed.) Growing Up in an Urbanising World. Paris / London: UNESCO Publishing / Earthscan, 2002.

• Driskell, D. Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth. A Manual for Participation. Paris / London: UNESCO Publishing / Earthscan, 2002.

These publications are reviewed by:

• id21 communicating development research – a reporting service, bringing you the latest and best UK-based development research.

• Children, Youth and Environments (CYE) – a new journal which brings free access to the latest peer-reviewed research on environments for young people.

• The Centre for Education in the Built Environment of the Cardiff University – one of the 24 Subject Centres funded by the four UK Higher Education funding bodies to promote high quality learning, teaching and assessment practices in UK Higher Education.

• Planum – an on-line European Journal of Planning, promoted by various town planning institutions.