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

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• dc.contributor.author Pérez-del-Pulgar, Carmen
• dc.contributor.author Anguelovski, Isabelle
• dc.contributor.author Connolly, James
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-05-05T08:48:56Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.description.abstract 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.
• dc.description.sponsorship 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.
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• dc.identifier.citation Pérez del Pulgar C, Anguelovski I, Connolly J. Toward a green and playful city: understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona. Cities. 2020 Jan; 96: 102438. DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2019.102438
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102438
• dc.identifier.issn 0264-2751
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44406
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Elsevier
• dc.relation.ispartof Cities. 2020 Jan;96:102438
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/678034
• dc.rights © Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102438
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• dc.subject.keyword Barcelona
• dc.subject.keyword Children-Nature-Play
• dc.subject.keyword Urban Environmental Equity
• dc.subject.keyword Urban Political Ecology
• dc.subject.keyword Relational Wellbeing
• dc.subject.keyword Environmental Justice
• dc.subject.keyword Gentrification
• dc.title Toward a green and playful city: understanding the social and political production of children's relational wellbeing in Barcelona
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