relation: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4542/
title: Beyond school- and playgrounds: adolescent’s preferences on environmentally friendly urban design scenarios - a Groningen case study
creator: Berk, Jovan Felix van den
description: To mitigate the effects of climate change, urban areas need to transition from spaces of emission and pollution into environmentally friendly places. This transition has the potential to be collaborative and inclusive by involving often disregarded groups, such as adolescents. To understand adolescents’ urban design preferences and how they relate to environmental sustainability, a focus group was conducted and analysed through a thematic analysis. The resulting eight themes were sustainability, nature, well-being, transport, ownership, uncertainty, and degree of change. The study concluded that although adolescents’ urban design preferences relate in many ways to environmental sustainability, their understanding of the topic is still partly limited and characterised by uncertainty. Additionally, most adolescents exhibit an individual focus and prefer non-transformational environmentally friendly change.
date: 2024
type: Thesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4542/1/BSc-SPD-Thesis---JFvdB.pdf
identifier:   Berk, Jovan Felix van den  (2024) Beyond school- and playgrounds: adolescent’s preferences on environmentally friendly urban design scenarios - a Groningen case study.  Bachelor thesis.