Making child-friendly cities: A socio-spatial literature review

With more than one-third of children worldwide living in urban areas, the call for child-friendly cities (CFC) has increased urgency; however, many are still largely unfriendly to children. This paper uses a systematic literature review and bibliometric tool identify papers from Scopus between 2001 2020. It reviews existing knowledge gaps about child-friendliness within sphere socio-spatial planning. The findings reveal three-dimensional perspective concept cities: rights, physical environment, governance. Moreover, it shows that appears rather limited its explanation governance processes lead translating children's rights into suitable environments. In conclusions, research avenue is proposed close can contribute achieving CFC.