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For anyone who has children, there's a fun book you can get that through brainstorming exercises, teaches them about cities and urban planning by Antropology 4 Kids. The book is available free as an e-book although you can donate via Patreon if you wish to support A4Kids! There is no print version from what I can tell, so you'd need to print it out. They also offer some other ebooks for children on other subjects such as privacy, anarchism, beauty/aesthetics, protest movements and so on.

Also linked is a short article/interview by Arts of the Working Class who spoke to the creators of the organization and how the workshops they held worked.

What is a city? How is it constructed? Let’s together imagine a city in which you and I would love to live!

This is a book about cities – how unexpectedly different they were in various countries and times. It is also a book about cities that never existed, but someone dreamed of them or feared them.

It contains many pictures, including drawings and graphic art, some dating from as far back as the Middle Ages, illustrations from science fiction books and pictures from movies, and drawings I myself and my friend the architect Sam Chermayeff made. There are also maps of cities that children invented. As with the other books in the series, there’s a lot of room for you to draw in and put your dreams and fantasies on paper. You can start right away, building the city in which you’d love to live.

Cities Made Differently - Arts of the Working Class

In the following interview, Vera Mey and Nika Dubrovsky discuss their shared experiences as part of the conference series “Challenging Capitalist Modernity,” in which Dubrovsky had taken part on behalf of her organization, Anthropology for Kids. This conversation reflects on Dubrovsky’s experience at the workshop in collaboration with Kurdish activists, touching on themes of urbanism, community, and imagination. The conference took place in Hamburg, Germany, from April 7-9, 2023, and under the title We Want Our World Back, focused on the arts, education, and construction of democratic confederalism.

City - by Nika Dubrovsky and Vera Mey. To download, click the ⇓ below the cover image on the website.

Additionally, here is a brief elaboration on an in-person workshop that utilized the book: https://a4kids.org/workshop-future-city/