
Although power structures have changed over time, meaningful transformation in city architecture has always demanded authority's support and participation.
For thousands of years, however, the state's primary goal has been to create cities that function well for adults. The underlying assumption has been simple: if a city works well for adults, it will naturally work well for everyone else.But children experience the city differently.
Designing cities that truly serve children requires a deeper reconsideration of architecture, town planning, urban structure, principles, policies, and design strategies. Over the past decades, we have seen only limited topics to improve children's live in cities.
Organizations, individuals, investors, and companies are important contributors. They can advocate, innovate, and raise awareness. But they cannot, on their own, establish the structural foundation required for a truly child-centered city.Creating Child City Architecture requires much more.
It requires policies, long-term strategies, planning regulations, urban codes, and professional guidelines.
This responsibility lies within the public decision-making system: governments, parliaments, political parties, municipalities, and public research and knowledge institutions.
When the state provides the necessary institutional framework, it creates the environment where all actors involved in urban development can collaborate to build the knowledge, policies, and projects needed to realize a true Child City.Building cities for children is not a small initiative.
It is a structural responsibility of the government in any country