Children would express the both spontaneous and honest reflections of our true urban world, apart from political and business interests. Locating the schools has challenges in terms of areas, facilities and reach-out. There are couple of strategies, whereas each has justifications. The Edu Zone, with all schools, facilities and supplementary are existing with administrative control and facilitation, yet transportation is a great challenge. Another is the District Edu Hubs, which are catered to serve the surrounding residential communities. Kindergartens has few solutions driven by capacity; within the blocks, the business parks, the non-residential properties, the hospitals, etc. However, the strategic aggregates of urban planning would set the appropriate guidance to assure convenience, safety and prosperity.

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What if traffic deaths weren’t accidents but design failures?
Most road collisions involving children aren’t just about behaviour. They’re about design.
About speed limits that go ignored. About cycle paths that don’t exist. About crossings that don’t give kids enough time to cross.
And somehow, when a child steps into the road too soon, we call them the cause of the accident.
An analysis of 859 children's drawings of 3-6 year olds on the theme of traffic clearly demonstrated that "the street divides." (M. Hüttenmoser)
23% of the drawings illustrate that children have problems when they want to cross the street to meet their needs (i.e. to visit friends, to go to a playground, to make contact with trusted adults, to observe animals and plants, etc.).
We talk about teaching road safety – but when are we going to start designing it?
This isn’t just about getting from A to B. It’s about creating public spaces where children can move freely, safely, and independently.
Every road death is preventable - yet we treat them as unavoidable.
Because a society where a child can ride their bike to school without fear? That’s a better society for everyone.
SOURCES:
Multiple studies by Marco Hüttenmoser throughout the 1990s and 2000s, such as:
- HÜTTENMOSER, Marco (1995): Children and Their Living Surroundings: Empirical Investigations into the Significance of Living Surroundings for the Everday Life and Development of Children. In: Children’s Environments, Vol. 12
- SAUTER, Daniel and HÜTTENMOSER, Marco (2008): Liveable streets and social inclusion. In: Urban Design International, 13, pp. 67-79