Reimagining Age-Friendly Communities, livre ebook

Offers a novel approach to understanding the opportunities and challenges of establishing ‘age-friendly’ communities in the context of urban change

Addresses the question of how to develop age-friendly environments that better meet people’s needs as they grow older in areas of urban change and multiple deprivation

Provides important new insights about how to adopt a ‘co-production’ methodology to improve the relationship between the design of cities and the everyday experience of those living in them

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

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.

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