Louise Chawla is a

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emerita in the College of Architecture and Planning at the

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, where she is a member of the Executive Committee of the Children Youth and Environments Center for Research and Design and co-editor of the ''

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''. Louise Chawla's interest in children's informal learning in their communities led her to a master's degree in education and child development from

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and a doctorate in environmental psychology from the

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. She has written on children and nature, children in cities, and the development of environmental activism. Her publications include the books ''In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry and Childhood Memory'', the co-authored collection ''Growing Up in an Urbanising World''., and the co-authored ''Placemaking with Children and Youth'', which received the 2019 Environmental Design Research Association Achievement Award. When she served as a

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at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, she revived the Growing Up in Cities project of

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, which continues to involve urban children in cities around the world in evaluating and improving their local communities. The project won the 2002 Place Research Award from the Environmental Design Research Association. She is involved in promoting design for children's nature play in residential neighborhoods.

Publications

* ''Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities'', New Village Press, September 2018.https://nyupress.org/9781613321003/placemaking-with-children-and-youth/

References

External links

Children, Youth & Environments, The Journal

Children, Youth and Environments Center for research
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