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How can we design, develop and adapt urban environments to better meet the needs and aspirations of an increasingly diverse ageing population?
This edited collection offers a new approach to understanding the opportunities and challenges of creating 'age-friendly' communities in the context of urban change. Drawing together insights from leading voices across a range of disciplines, the book emphasises the urgent need to address inequalities that shape the experience of ageing in urban environments.
The book combines a focus on social justice, equity, diversity and co-production to enhance urban life. Exploring a range of age-friendly community projects, contributors demonstrate that, despite structural obstacles, meaningful social change is achievable at a local level.
Contents
PART I Background to urban ageing and spatial justice
1. A spatial justice approach to urban ageing research - Tine Buffel, Sophie Yarker and Patty Doran
2. Developing age-friendly cities and communities: an international perspective - Samuèle Rémillard-Boilard and Patty Doran
3. Developing age-friendly policies for cities and city-regions during austerity, COVID-19 and beyond: strategies, challenges and reflections - Paul McGarry
4. Paying attention to inequalities in later life: a priority for urban ageing research and policy - James Nazroo
PART II Age-friendly interventions to promote spatial justice
5. Involving marginalised groups of older people in age-friendly programmes: lessons from the Ambition for Ageing programme - Luciana Lang and Sophie Yarker
6. Developing age-friendly communities in areas of urban regeneration - Niamh Kavanagh and Camilla Lewis
7. Co-producing age-friendly community interventions: the Village model - Mhorag Goff and Patty Doran
8. Redesigning the age-friendly city: the role of architecture in addressing spatial ageism - Mark Hammond, Emily Crompton and Stefan White
9. The role of community and voluntary organisations in creating spatially just age-friendly cities - Sophie Yarker, Camilla Lewis and Luciana Lang
PART III Reimagining age-friendly communities
10. Ageing in the margins: exploring experiences of precarity in urban environments - Miriam Tenquist, Tess Hartland and Joana Salles
11. Dismantling and rebuilding praxis for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: towards an emancipatory approach - Jarmin Yeh, Emily A. Greenfield and Melanie Z. Plasencia
12. Conclusion: reimagining age-friendly cities and communities - Tine Buffel, Sophie Yarker and Patty Doran
Afterword - Chris Phillipson
