联合国儿童基金会“建设适合儿童生长的城市”运动

A UNICEF campaign for child friendly cities

联合国儿童基金会之所以提出“建设适合儿童生长的城市”这一概念，主要是基于这样一个事实，即越来越多的儿童将在城市中生活。但是，大部分城市都不适于儿童的生长发育。

The call for child friendly cities is rooted in the recognition that cities are home to an increasing proportion of the world＇s children. But most cities are largely unfriendly to children. By 2002, close to half the world＇s children lived in urban centres, most of them in low and middle-income nations, according to UNICEF research. Over the past decade, a Child Friendly City initiative has developed to provide an alternative to how cities have been conceived and built by and for adults. In September 2000, UNICEF set up the International Secretariat for Child Friendly Cities （CFC） at Innocenti Research Centre in Florence to support this evolving network. The CFC Secretariat assists cities in building child friendly cities, acting a repository and a sounding board of locally generated information.