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Children's street culture refers to the cumulative culture created by young children. Collectively, this body of knowledge is passed down from one generation of urban children to the next, and can also be passed between different groups of children (e.g. in the form of Craze s, such as making Guys for Bonfire Night — ''see Beck 1984 ''). It is often strongest in urban Working Class Industrial District s where children are traditionally free to "play out" (thus creating Children's street culture) in the streets for long periods without supervision. It is most common in children between the ages of seven and twelve. It is not to be confused with the commercial narrative media-culture produced ''for'' children (e.g., Comics , Television , mass-produced toys, and clothing), although it may overlap. Children's street culture is invented and largely sustained by children themselves, although it may come to incorporate fragments of media culture and toys in its activities. It can also incorporate scavenged materials such as old car seats, tyres, planks, bricks, etc. Although it varies from place to place, research shows that it appears to share many commonalities across many cultures. It is a traditional phenomenon that has been closely investigated and documented during the 20th century by ; urbanists such as Colin Ward and Robin Moore , as well as being described in countless novels of childhood. It has occasionally been central to feature films, such as the '' Our Gang '' ("Little Rascals") series, Ealing 's '' Hue & Cry '' (1947) and some Children's Film Foundation films such as ''Go Kart, Go!'' and ''Soap Box Derby''. Since the widespread use of the Car , children's street culture has often been forced to retreat to pavements and backstreets, and then into parks and playgrounds. Since the advent of distractions such as Video Games , Television and peer pressure concerns have been expressed about the vitality or even the survival of children's own street culture for it began to die. Since the mid 1990s in some nations, parental fears about Pedophile s have led many adults to forbid unsupervised outdoor play. In . SEE ALSO
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