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Childhood's changing terrain: incorporating childhood past and present into community evaluation

Norwegian Centre for Child Research, University of Trondheim, Norway

Two Kentucky communities are compared to evaluate the changing quality of children's community experience since 1900: Portland, an old working-class area of Louisville, and New Castle, a rural county seat. Through a combination of oral histories, archival re search, and contemporary children's evaluations, pre- and post-World War II com munity resources for children are identified, along with the social contexts of their use. Parallel social and land-use changes in the two communities, subject to parallel econ omic policies and social trends, challenge the urban-rural dichotomy that has character ized histories ot children's lives.

Key Words: children • environment: urban • rural • community evaluation • community history.

Childhood, Vol. 2, No. 4, 221-233 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/090756829400200406


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