Let children reclaim the streets for a summer of outdoor play | Rowan Moore

The young deserve to have fun and games after their pandemic privations

Here’s an outstandingly good idea: close residential streets to traffic this summer so that children can play in them. Give them something positive by which to remember the year 2020 – that time when they could take possession of the usually forbidden ground outside their front doors. Make up for the lockdown’s constriction of space with abundance of it.

So far, children have featured in the pandemic discussion mostly in relation to the reopening of schools, a debate fuelled by family-loving columnists who suddenly find they can’t stand the extended company of their little darlings. Definitions of acceptable outdoor behaviour haven’t included children’s play, but its loss is at least as big a deprivation as that of schooling.

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from Children | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2Ao6SUh