Children Living with ‘Sustainable’ Urban Architectures

• DOI: 10.1068/a140401p
• Publication Date: 2015-05-06T18:45:31Z
• Authors: John Horton; Sophie Hadfield-Hill; Peter Kraftl
• Keywords: Sustainable Living; Everyday Life

This paper considers the everyday geographies of children living in new largescale urban developments which multiple forms 'sustainable' architecture are characteristic features.We argue that children's experiences with materialities, politics, and technologies sustainability have too often been marginalised much chief research on childhood, youth, sustainability.Drawing qualitative 8-16-year-olds materialities ecohousing, drainage, wind turbines, photovoltaic panelling, we explore how sustainable architectures noticed, (mis)understood, cared about, lived by course their geographies.In so doing, highlight challenging prevalence significance architectural conservatisms, misconceptions, rumours, disillusionments, myths relating to architectures.