Toward a green and playful city: understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona

This paper examines recent urban green amenities directed toward children and families and develops a novel understanding of the ways in which children's socio-natures are made/unmade through such interventions. We employ ethnographic and archival analysis in two new parks – Poble Nou and N...

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Autores: Pérez-del-Pulgar, Carmen, Anguelovski, Isabelle, Connolly, James
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44406
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102438
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Barcelona
Children-Nature-Play
Urban Environmental Equity
Urban Political Ecology
Relational Wellbeing
Environmental Justice
Gentrification
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spelling Toward a green and playful city: understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in BarcelonaPérez-del-Pulgar, CarmenAnguelovski, IsabelleConnolly, JamesBarcelonaChildren-Nature-PlayUrban Environmental EquityUrban Political EcologyRelational WellbeingEnvironmental JusticeGentrificationThis paper examines recent urban green amenities directed toward children and families and develops a novel understanding of the ways in which children's socio-natures are made/unmade through such interventions. We employ ethnographic and archival analysis in two new parks – Poble Nou and Nou Barris – in Barcelona to examine how a particular type of children's wellbeing, what we call “relational wellbeing” is shaped through the production of green-playful-child-friendly amenities. We find that planning processes and visions, urban development goals, and neighbourhood socio-material structure moderate the effect of green-playful-child-friendly amenities on relational wellbeing by directing how these spaces are used. This finding points toward the importance – for equity concerns – of accounting for the social and political processes that generate relational wellbeing. These processes are often reflective of broader economic agendas of urban transformation designed to extract value, control space, and/or legitimize speculative urban development – while sometimes eroding local socio-material conditions – to the point of producing green spaces of privilege, exclusion and control. The connection between relational wellbeing and green-playful-child-friendly interventions highlights the importance, within the urban environmental equity literature, of reconceptualising pathways of wellbeing and health beyond questions of spatial distribution of natural areas and offers a new perspective for the development of future guidelines on green-playful-child-friendly space policies.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by the EU H2020 ERC project GreenLULUs (GA678034). This research also contributes to the Maria de Maetzu Unit of Excellence grant (MDM-, 2015-0552) at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA). Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA). Juan de la Cierva Incorporación grant programme (IJCI-2016-31100) from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia Inovación y Universidades.Elsevier20202020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/44406http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102438reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésCities. 2020 Jan;96:102438info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/678034© Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102438info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/444062026-06-12T07:21:37Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Toward a green and playful city: understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona
title Toward a green and playful city: understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona
spellingShingle Toward a green and playful city: understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona
Pérez-del-Pulgar, Carmen
Barcelona
Children-Nature-Play
Urban Environmental Equity
Urban Political Ecology
Relational Wellbeing
Environmental Justice
Gentrification
title_short Toward a green and playful city: understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona
title_full Toward a green and playful city: understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona
title_fullStr Toward a green and playful city: understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona
title_full_unstemmed Toward a green and playful city: understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona
title_sort Toward a green and playful city: understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pérez-del-Pulgar, Carmen
Anguelovski, Isabelle
Connolly, James
author Pérez-del-Pulgar, Carmen
author_facet Pérez-del-Pulgar, Carmen
Anguelovski, Isabelle
Connolly, James
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Connolly, James
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Barcelona
Children-Nature-Play
Urban Environmental Equity
Urban Political Ecology
Relational Wellbeing
Environmental Justice
Gentrification
topic Barcelona
Children-Nature-Play
Urban Environmental Equity
Urban Political Ecology
Relational Wellbeing
Environmental Justice
Gentrification
description This paper examines recent urban green amenities directed toward children and families and develops a novel understanding of the ways in which children's socio-natures are made/unmade through such interventions. We employ ethnographic and archival analysis in two new parks – Poble Nou and Nou Barris – in Barcelona to examine how a particular type of children's wellbeing, what we call “relational wellbeing” is shaped through the production of green-playful-child-friendly amenities. We find that planning processes and visions, urban development goals, and neighbourhood socio-material structure moderate the effect of green-playful-child-friendly amenities on relational wellbeing by directing how these spaces are used. This finding points toward the importance – for equity concerns – of accounting for the social and political processes that generate relational wellbeing. These processes are often reflective of broader economic agendas of urban transformation designed to extract value, control space, and/or legitimize speculative urban development – while sometimes eroding local socio-material conditions – to the point of producing green spaces of privilege, exclusion and control. The connection between relational wellbeing and green-playful-child-friendly interventions highlights the importance, within the urban environmental equity literature, of reconceptualising pathways of wellbeing and health beyond questions of spatial distribution of natural areas and offers a new perspective for the development of future guidelines on green-playful-child-friendly space policies.
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