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The Science of Play

Author : Susan G. Solomon
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611686113
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book The Science of Play written by Susan G. Solomon and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poor design and wasted funding characterize today's American playgrounds. A range of factors--including a litigious culture, overzealous safety guidelines, and an ethos of risk aversion--have created uniform and unimaginative playgrounds. These spaces fail to nurture the development of children or promote playgrounds as an active component in enlivening community space. Solomon's book demonstrates how to alter the status quo by allying data with design. Recent information from the behavioral sciences indicates that kids need to take risks; experience failure but also have a chance to succeed and master difficult tasks; learn to plan and solve problems; exercise self-control; and develop friendships. Solomon illustrates how architects and landscape architects (most of whom work in Europe and Japan) have already addressed these needs with strong, successful playground designs. These innovative spaces, many of which are more multifunctional and cost effective than traditional playgrounds, are both sustainable and welcoming. Having become vibrant hubs within their neighborhoods, these play sites are models for anyone designing or commissioning an urban area for children and their families. The Science of Play, a clarion call to use playground design to deepen the American commitment to public space, will interest architects, landscape architects, urban policy makers, city managers, local politicians, and parents.

My Dream Playground

Author : Kate M. Becker
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763655317
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book My Dream Playground written by Kate M. Becker and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreaming of a day when there will be a real playground in her own neighborhood, a little girl is ecstatic when she learns that a local playground has been planned, in a story inspired by the construction of the first playground built by the KaBOOM! national nonprofit.

Children on Playgrounds

Author : Craig H. Hart
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438405944
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Children on Playgrounds written by Craig H. Hart and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on key issues and current research evidence of links between children's behavior in outdoor play environments and children's development. Specific attention is given to ways that outdoor play environments are extensions of other development settings, like the classroom or family. Since most work up to this point has focused on development in indoor classroom settings or in other developmental contexts, this book makes an important contribution.

Let's Play!

Author : Jane Watkinson
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 073607001X
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Let's Play! written by Jane Watkinson and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2010 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's Play! Promoting Active Playgrounds will help you know the activities that children ages 3 to 8 typically play on the playground and assess the specific skills they need in order to take part in those activities. It will also help you identify kids who are left out of the activities or choose to withdraw from them, and help those kids to acquire the skills they need to be part of the playground action.

The Complete Playground Book

Author : Arlene Brett
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815602712
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Playground Book written by Arlene Brett and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history and purpose of outdoor play areas. Both a reminiscence and a practical manual, this study probes the philosophy of play, the stages of a child's behaviour and social interaction in recreation, and the educational value of playgrounds.

Once Upon a Playground

Author : Biondo, Brenda
Publisher : ForeEdge
ISBN 13 : 1611685125
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Once Upon a Playground written by Biondo, Brenda and published by ForeEdge. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before today's safety-minded structures of wood and plastic, America's playgrounds were full of tottering seesaws, dizzying merry-go-rounds, and towering metal slides. Documenting the evolution of American playgrounds between 1920 and 1975, Once Upon a Playground is a visual tribute to these iconic structures, celebrating their place in our culture and the collective memories of generations. In it, contemporary photos of vintage pieces of playground equipment are juxtaposed with images of the very same pieces as they were shown in classic catalogs, postcards, and photographs. The result is a haunting time capsule showing a rapidly vanishing part of our country's cultural heritage. Whatever the playgrounds of your childhood looked like, the gorgeous photographs in this book will transport you back in time and remind you of just how important play can really be.

American Playgrounds

Author : Susan G. Solomon
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584655176
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book American Playgrounds written by Susan G. Solomon and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling history, a manifesto, and a manual for change.

Louie's Together Playground

Author : Dr. Nicole Julia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733272728
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (727 download)

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Download or read book Louie's Together Playground written by Dr. Nicole Julia and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Louie, a crafty Llama with Dwarfism, who loves to build, construct and create. Together, he and his friends dream up a plan to bring the very first all-inclusive playground to their town.

The Infinite Playground

Author : Bernard De Koven
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262543869
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Infinite Playground written by Bernard De Koven and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his final work, a visionary game designer reveals how a surprising range of play-based experiences can unlock our imagination and help us capture the power of fun and delight. Bernard De Koven (1941–2018) was a pioneering designer of games and theorist of fun. He studied games long before the field of game studies existed. For De Koven, games could not be reduced to artifacts and rules; they were about a sense of transcendent fun. This book, his last, is about the imagination: the imagination as a playground, a possibility space, and a gateway to wonder. The Infinite Playground extends a play-centered invitation to experience the power and delight unlocked by imagination. It offers a curriculum for playful learning. De Koven guides the readers through a series of observations and techniques, interspersed with games. He begins with the fundamentals of play, and proceeds through the private imagination, the shared imagination, and imagining the world—observing, “the things we imagine can become the world.” Along the way, he reminisces about playing ping-pong with basketball great Bill Russell; begins the instructions for a game called Reception Line with “Mill around”; and introduces blathering games—Blather, Group Blather, Singing Blather, and The Blather Chorale—that allow the player's consciousness to meander freely. Delivered during the last months of his life, The Infinite Playground has been painstakingly cowritten with Holly Gramazio, who worked together with coeditors Celia Pearce and Eric Zimmerman to complete the project as Bernie De Koven's illness made it impossible for him to continue writing. Other prominent game scholars and designers influenced by De Koven, including Katie Salen Tekinbaş, Jesper Juul, Frank Lantz, and members of Bernie's own family, contribute short interstitial essays.

The Design of Childhood

Author : Alexandra Lange
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632866374
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book The Design of Childhood written by Alexandra Lange and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From building blocks to city blocks, an eye-opening exploration of how children's playthings and physical surroundings affect their development. Parents obsess over their children's playdates, kindergarten curriculum, and every bump and bruise, but the toys, classrooms, playgrounds, and neighborhoods little ones engage with are just as important. These objects and spaces encode decades, even centuries of changing ideas about what makes for good child-rearing--and what does not. Do you choose wooden toys, or plastic, or, increasingly, digital? What do youngsters lose when seesaws are deemed too dangerous and slides are designed primarily for safety? How can the built environment help children cultivate self-reliance? In these debates, parents, educators, and kids themselves are often caught in the middle. Now, prominent design critic Alexandra Lange reveals the surprising histories behind the human-made elements of our children's pint-size landscape. Her fascinating investigation shows how the seemingly innocuous universe of stuff affects kids' behavior, values, and health, often in subtle ways. And she reveals how years of decisions by toymakers, architects, and urban planners have helped--and hindered--American youngsters' journeys toward independence. Seen through Lange's eyes, everything from the sandbox to the street becomes vibrant with buried meaning. The Design of Childhood will change the way you view your children's world--and your own.

playground

Author :
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book playground written by and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on 20?? with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Playground

Author : Tim Gill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000222160
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Urban Playground written by Tim Gill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What type of cities do we want our children to grow up in? Car-dominated, noisy, polluted and devoid of nature? Or walkable, welcoming, and green? As the climate crisis and urbanisation escalate, cities urgently need to become more inclusive and sustainable. This book reveals how seeing cities through the eyes of children strengthens the case for planning and transportation policies that work for people of all ages, and for the planet. It shows how urban designers and city planners can incorporate child friendly insights and ideas into their masterplans, public spaces and streetscapes. Healthier children mean happier families, stronger communities, greener neighbourhoods, and an economy focused on the long-term. Make cities better for everyone.

Playground of My Mind

Author : Julia Jacquette
Publisher : Prestel
ISBN 13 : 9783791356501
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Playground of My Mind written by Julia Jacquette and published by Prestel. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through exquisite drawings and storytelling, Julia Jacquette's graphic memoir provides a distinctive account of her childhood in Manhattan in the 1960s and 1970s. Inspired by the adventure playgrounds from her youth growing up in New York City, the painter Julia Jacquette explores the brightly colored structures of the play spaces and the surrounding landscape of the city in Playground of My Mind. With compelling illustrations and personal narrative, this book features adventure playgrounds created by architects Richard Dattner, M. Paul Friedberg, the partnership Ross Ryan Jacquette in New York City, and Aldo van Eyck in Amsterdam. These structures encouraged constructive, imaginative play and gave renewed life to utopian notions of American and European modernist architecture. Playground of My Mind reflects upon the period of the 1960s and 1970s which was a tumultuous time of social change and activism in New York City and throughout the United States. While considering the conflicted emotions that envelop idealized aspects of the past, this unique book captures the nostalgia for a bygone era of New York life in vivid detail. Published in association with the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College in association with the exhibition, Julia Jacquette: Unrequited and Acts of Play.

Learning and Connecting in School Playgrounds

Author : Llyween Couper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351130900
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Learning and Connecting in School Playgrounds written by Llyween Couper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play is critical to children’s well-being and development. All students should have access to and adequate time for positive play experiences every day. Learning and Connecting in School Playgrounds invites parents, teachers, principals and education administrators to take another look at their school playgrounds as spaces crucial to learning, well-being and development. This book combines research findings, commentary and the authors’ personal experiences and observations together with the views of teachers, principals, parents and students related to play and play spaces. Key content includes consideration of the role of adults in the school playground, the influence of technology on play, the challenges experienced by children transitioning to new school environments and consideration of strategies to support students’ access and participation in the playground. Cases are presented to illustrate the use of an audit tool to enhance school playgrounds. The future of school playgrounds is also considered through the reported hopes and dreams of adults and students and a range of recommendations are made for the review and development of schools’ outdoor play spaces. Learning and Connecting in School Playgrounds is written with a sense of urgency, calling for the recognition of positive play experiences as invaluable to children’s education. It includes important and challenging insights to inform and guide decision-making and will be an essential resource for all stakeholders who share responsibility for children’s participation and learning during school break-times.

Central Park’s Adventure-Style Playgrounds

Author : Marie Warsh
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807172014
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Central Park’s Adventure-Style Playgrounds written by Marie Warsh and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York’s Central Park, some of the playgrounds constructed as part of the midcentury experimental “playground revolution” still remain. In Central Park's Adventure-Style Playgrounds, Marie Warsh tells the engrossing history of these playscapes built in the 1960s and 1970s, exploring their connections to the art, recreational design, urbanism, grassroots movements, and child-development theories of the period. She further details the Central Park Conservancy’s efforts decades later to preserve and renew these playgrounds. So-called adventure-style playgrounds featured interconnected forms including pyramids, mounds, and steps, and basic materials such as water and sand, encouraging new levels of creativity and interaction. By the end of the 1970s, ten of Central Park’s twenty-two existing playgrounds—formerly paved, sterile, standard-equipment-filled lots dating to the 1930s—had been transformed according to the new design ideals. With time, deterioration prompted concerns about safety, and much of the equipment was removed. However, community interest led the Central Park Conservancy to update and preserve the playgrounds that remained in the park. Building on successful aspects of the playgrounds, designers incorporated new technologies, materials, and equipment that reflect contemporary ideas about children’s play and approaches to urban park management. They also developed strategies to better integrate them into the landscapes of the park. Today, Central Park’s adventure-style playgrounds represent significant works of renewed modern landscape architecture as well as models for new thinking about playground design.

Playgrounds for Free

Author : Paul Hogan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Playgrounds for Free written by Paul Hogan and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Materials--Using the materials--How to do it, how not to do it.

A Big Hug Book: The Playground is Like a Jungle

Author : Shona Innes
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1743586388
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book A Big Hug Book: The Playground is Like a Jungle written by Shona Innes and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going into the playground can be like setting off on an adventure in the jungle – exciting, a little bit wild and filled with lots of different creatures. You’ll meet lots of people having their own adventures in the playground, and sometimes you might want to play together. There’s a lot to learn, but there’s also lots of fun to be had. This series deals with emotive issues that children face in direct and gentle terms, allowing children’s feelings and problems to be more easily shared and discussed with family and friends. Author Shona Innes is a qualified clinical and forensic psychologist with many years of experience assisting children.