Serious Playground Research
Playgrounds are fun. But also serious. Here are some of the more academic things I've read (or want to read) on playgrounds.
Risky Play: An Ethical Challenge
Kvalnes, Øyvind, and Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter. Risky Play: An Ethical Challenge. Cham: Springer Nature, 2023.
https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/98500 (Open Access!)
Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago
https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1676145
Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago
https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1929211
The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America
By Galen Cranz
The MIT Press
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/5469.001.0001
ISBN electronic:9780262367868
Publication date: 1982
Defining the Sustainable Park: A Fifth Model for Urban Parks
Galen Cranz and Michael Boland
Landscape Journal, September 2004, 23 (2) 102-120; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.23.2.102