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Net gains How new playgrounds rethink safety risks

Towering over a woodland playground in the northern outskirts of Berlin, the Triitopia climbing frame can cause worry in any anxious paren

Children aged six and upwards wind their way through four stacked steel-wire buckyballs and scramble up rope ladders until they reach a platform about 10 metres above the forest floor. Parents can try to keep up with their young mountaineers, but may get

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