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Mohammad Bagheri , Somayeh Safavi
The Role of Sustainable Development in Child-Friendly Communities to Improve Children’s Health and Well-Being(Case Study:Zanjan ,Iran)
توسعه پایدار در محلات دوستدار کودک به منظور ارتقای سلامت جسمی وروانی کودکان(مورد پژوهی در زنجان، ایران)
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Sustainable development has an important role in creating children-friendly communities especially on designing neighborhood open spaces to improve the children’s health and wellbeing. This paper explores the children and their parents’ ideas about the quality of residential environments with focus on a new neighborhood in Zanjan city, Iran. The research method is based on the analysis of the neighborhood open space design by observing of the children behavior and recording the parents’ ideas. Random sample parents on the neighborhood were answered the qualitative questions and the children wereasked to paint their cognitive maps and models about ideal healthy neighborhood. The results of the study show that natural characteristics of community design, social contacts of the children and parents with neighbors ,environmental safety and security and physical activity in playgrounds have the main role in making child-friendly communities. Using sustainable design paradigm can improve the children’s physical health and psychological wellbeing |