The impact of the designed environment on child development : children's community homes

Abstract

Children do not develop the way they do by chance; they do so according to the practices of the worlds in which they live. Children grow up in many worlds: the world of their home and the family, the world of school and playmates, and the world of culture, community, and work. Whatever each world might be or made to be far the child is a component which will affect the resulting develapement of the child. Moreover, each component world, combines in itself a physical setting, ways of doing things and ideas, that together furnish distinctive experiences which shape for the child a personality which will be his for life.