College of Architecture and Planning University of Colorado Denver

Tools / Fact Sheets

• Key facts about Denver's Child & Youth Friendly City Initiative (PDF)
• Building blocks for developing a child-friendly city (PDF, 167 KB)
• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The human rights of children and the standards to which all governments must aspire in realizing these rights for all children, are most concisely and fully articulated in one international human rights treaty: the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Built on varied legal systems and cultural traditions, the Convention on the Rights of the Child is a universally agreed set of non-negotiable standards and obligations that has been ratified by 191 countries.
• Principles of Child-Friendly Housing (PDF).  What is "child-friendly" design? This document is intended to help answer this question by summarizing research and other literature on child-friendly housing design, and also includes advice from practitioners