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DRISKELL, DAVID. Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth: A Manual for Participation. (London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan Publications, Ltd. and UNESCO Publishing, 2002, 208 pp.). Paper.
Too often in our community development work, we run across the problem of alienated and disengaged youth. We know it is important to include young folks in our projects, but this is a difficult group to reach.
Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth: A Manual for Participation is an extremely practical guide to including youth in community development projects. Drawing from the UNESCO-funded Growing Up in Cities Project, the volume helps the reader apply experiences of youth-oriented programs in both developing and developed urban areas around the world.
The book, written by an interdisciplinary team, has a clearly articulated philosophy: Increased participation of vulnerable youth populations in designing and implementing...