The Playable City Part 2 Dissertation 2024 Robyn Platt-Lambert University of Central Lancashire | UK The Playable City is an essay to explore how children and adults can reclaim play spaces in their own cities. The research aims to explore and address the topic of engaging with play spaces in daily life within a city centre or the suburbs in the United Kingdom. Whilst analysing what currently makes a play space implicit or explicit in the UK?By using specific case studies and examining their existing play spaces, organised clubs and sports, the stereotypical clinical enclosed playground to more adventurous play spaces and what could be done to improve these play spaces. The argument for this essay is a discussion between developer led play spaces compared to the radial play, with conclusions being drawn to propose strategies that cities can use to create their own play spaces. The main topics that will be discussed and compared to the housing developers’ playgrounds are why children play, like I did as a child, in the overgrown areas and how these areas differ from enclosed playgrounds, the idea of ‘junk playground’ and whether this concept can still be used today, and Isamu Noguchi’s, Aldo van Eyck’s and Egon Moller-Nielsen ideas of sculpture playgrounds. Robyn Platt-Lambert Tutor(s) David Hasson