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“Ward’s aim is to demonstrate that, in the children’s street adventures—in the way they took ownership of an urban space that they themselves were simultaneously creating—there lay evidence that other ways of doing things together were possible, and that these things were already happening all around us, right before our eyes.” —Manuel Delgado
This book explores the infinitely varied experiences of children as they navigate city life, and the process by which their boundless capacity to invent urban settings and shared experiences has gradually been curtailed, leading – in the words of Manuel Delgado – to the ‘confined existence’ of childhood that we witness today.
The Child in the City, first published in 1978, quickly became a classic. This volume includes the foreword and afterword to the second edition, texts in which Colin Ward updates his most celebrated work and presents it to a new generation of readers.
It is with great regret—but in scrupulous deference to the author’s wishes—that we have omitted the photographs that illustrated the first edition of the work.
This book features a foreword by Manuel Delgado written especially for this edition.
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