Where do the children play? Where can they run around unsupervised? On most of the housing estates I visit, the answer is hardly anywhere.
A community not built around children is no community at all. A place that functions socially is one in which they are drawn to play outdoors.
As Jay Griffiths argues in her heartrending book Kith children fill the “unoccupied territories”, the spaces not controlled by tidy-minded adults, “the commons of mud, moss, roots and grass”. But such places are being purged from the land and their lives. Full blog
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