Creative Ageing Cities: Place Design with Older People in Asian Cities

ISBN-13: 9781138676725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 216 str.

Keng Hua Chong; Mihye Cho

Opis

Ageing population and urbanization have become global concerns in recent years. Concepts such as 'ageing-in-place' and 'active ageing' deal with issues of ever-larger elderly population living in the cities, especially in old urban neighbourhoods, while also taking into consideration the evolving lifestyles and well-being of the diverse elderly's demographics. To continue living in these existing urban neighbourhoods thus requires necessary interventions, both to adapt the changing needs of the ageing population and to improve the deteriorating environment for better liveability. Creative Ageing Cities discusses the contribution of ageing population as a productive and creative force towards urban design particularly in high-density urban contexts, as observed in a collection of empirical cases found in rapidly ageing Asian cities. The book examines the diverse forms of creative processes and emerging ageing-friendly built environments, and is the first to collect empirical cases from high-density, rapidly ageing Asian cities concerning place-making with and by the elderly.

Spis treści

Introduction (Keng Hua CHONG and Mihye CHO)  Part I: Singapore  1. Reclamation of Urban Voids and the Return of the "Kampung Spirit" in Singapore's Public Housing (Keng Hua CHONG)  2. A Case Study in Re-imagining Healthy Communities (Sweet Fun WONG)  Part II: Taipei  3. Regenerating Public Life for Ageing Communities through the Choreography of Place-ballets and the Weaving of Memory Tapestries (Min Jay KANG)  Part III: Seoul  4. Fostering Government-Citizen Collaboration and Inter-generational Cooperation: The Alternative Neighbourhood Regeneration Project in Jangsu, Seoul (Jiyoun KIM and Mihye CHO)  Part IV: Hong Kong  5. Participatory Action Research: Public Space Design by Older People (Jackie Yan Chi KWOK)  6. A Participatory Design Experience with Older People: Case Study of Participatory Design in the HKSKH Tseung Kwan O Aged Care Complex Project (Robert Kin Ming WONG, Crystal Man Chong HO, and Gwyneth Wing Lam CHAN)  Part V: Shanghai  7. New Prototype for Ageing-in-Place in Megacities: An Empirical Study of Shanghai (Dong YAO)  Part VI: Tokyo  8. Community Design to Prevent Solitary Death in Super-Aged Japan (Toshio OTSUKI)  Conclusion (Mihye CHO and Keng Hua CHONG)