Summary:
Karen Malone directed a UNESCO project that found that the media's creation of a 'virtual' urban environment - drug-ridden and violent - influenced young people's relationships with their own neighbourhood as much if not more than their neighbourhood's physical and social aspects. The project, designed to involve young people in the planning and creation of their urban environment, also found that the media creation of young people as a problematic group contributed to the reluctance of planners to allow young people to participate authentically in the planning of relevant public and private spaces.

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