“No ball games”: children’s views of their urban environments
- Department of Health and Social Care, Brunel University, Osterley Campus, Borough Road, Isleworth, Middlesex TW7 5DU, UK; virginia.morrow@brunel.ac.uk
In 1998 and 1999, groups of 12–13 year old and 14–15 year old students in two schools in a town in the south east of England were asked to describe their neighbourhoods, as part of a wider qualitative research project investigating the relation between health and social capital.1,2 The research used several different methods, including visual methods, to explore children’s views about places they felt were important to them. The younger group were asked to draw maps; the older group were given disposable cameras, and …
