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Physical space and mobility, the top two challenges for children in 300+ cities
Interview with Katie Beck by Questions for Cities, an online journal supported by the Participatory Urban Design and Development Initiative based in India, for their 75th edition on children in cities.
What challenges do cities face in creating better conditions for early childhood development?
The conditions a child grows up in have lasting impacts on their health, well-being and life outcomes. Katie Beck and Marie Kaune share new findings on what cities say are the biggest challenges they face in creating child-friendly environments on the LSE European Politics and Policy blog.
New publication: Early Childhood Development and Cities
New working paper by Katie Beck and Marie Kaune presenting data from 358 cities teams from 75 countries who have applied to the Urban95 Academy.
Leveraging what we know about Caregiver Wellbeing
Urban95 Academy and LSE Cities host roundtable on caregiver wellbeing to mark Early Childhood Matters launch
Exploring child-friendly urban policy and declining birth rates
The Urban95 Academy participated in an information sharing session with a delegation from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
What does it look like to build child-friendly and care-centred cities?
Katie Beck, Policy Fellow at LSE Cities and Urban95 Academy Manager, joined Miranda Rake and Sarah Wheeler, co-hosts of the Mother Of It All Podcast, to chat about what child-friendly, care-centred city design looks like in practice.
Where children grow up is important to their life outcomes
Katie Beck, Policy Fellow at LSE Cities and Marie Kaune, Researcher at LSE Cities represented the Urban95 Academy at the House of Lords for the launch of a new TCPA policy report ‘Raising the healthiest generation in history: why it matters where young people live’.
How do the spaces and places of London impact children and young people?
Katie Beck, Policy Fellow and Urban95 Academy Manager at LSE Cities joined the London Child Poverty Summit hosted by the Childhood Trust as a panellist.
Hundreds more city leaders will benefit from LSE leadership programme, improving the lives of young children globally
The Urban95 Academy leadership programme, first launched in 2021 by LSE Cities and the Van Leer Foundation, will continue for a further three years.