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The environment in which children grows up plays a crucial role in their development. While urban areas offer bettereducational facilities, extracurricular activities, and diverse experiences, rapid urbanization poses unforeseenchallenges such as pollution, traffic, and loss of natural habitats. Adopting a child-friendly approach can redirect andalter the course of development in urban settlements. Solutions that benefit all stakeholders can be implementedby prioritizing the most vulnerable stakeholders. This paper is a systematic review of research literature that exploresthe relationship between the well-being of children, inhabitants and child-friendly approaches in the context ofurban space. It also brings the children's perspective and their experiences into focus to understand the perceptionand reality of risks in urban childhood spaces.
Bhardwaj et al. (Sun,) studied this question.