Publications7.6.2015
Designing Modern Childhoods
History, Space, and the Material Culture of Children
Marta Gutman
With the advent of urbanization in the early modern period, the material worlds of children were vastly altered. In industrialized democracies, a broad consensus developed that children should not work, but rather learn and play in settings designed and built with these specific purposes in mind. Unregulated public spaces for children were no longer acceptable;