[HTML][HTML] Ten questions concerning age-friendly cities and communities and the built environment

J Van Hoof, HR Marston, JK Kazak, T Buffel - Building and environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of 'age-friendly cities' has become a major area of work in the field of
ageing and the built environment. This movement is driven by the observation that cities are …

The future of urban cemeteries as public spaces: Insights from Oslo and Copenhagen

P Grabalov, H Nordh - Planning Theory & Practice, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Public spaces are believed to make cities more liveable, healthy and socially equal. To date,
discussions about public spaces have primarily revolved around emblematic types, such as …

Ageing in networks: The unbounded geographies of non-migrant and migrant older adults

ELE Ho, V Chua, CC Feng - Progress in Human Geography, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
We propose 'ageing in networks' as an optic that shows how the social networks of older
adults extend beyond their residential neighbourhoods to extra-local and transnational …

Retooling the public library as social infrastructure: a Dutch illustration

R van Melik, MS Merry - Social & cultural geography, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Public libraries are more than information providers; they increasingly serve as key social
infrastructures. Financial pressures, decreasing membership and digitalisation require …

[HTML][HTML] Health and wellbeing in cities-Cultural contributions from urban form in the Global South context

H Tuhkanen, S Cinderby, A De Bruin, A Wikman… - Wellbeing, Space and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban public spaces, both natural and built, contribute to the liveability of urban spaces.
Evidence shows that natural urban spaces can improve both physical and psychological …

Elderly Residents' Uses of and Preferences for Community Outdoor Spaces during Heat Periods

X Yang, Y Fan, D Xia, Y Zou, Y Deng - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The downtown cores of many cities are characterized by aged communities that tend to host
a relatively high population of elderly retirement residents. The availability and usage of …

Day-care centres for older migrants: spaces to translate practices in the care landscape

H Carlsson, R Pijpers, R Van Melik - Social & Cultural Geography, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Aging populations in Western Europe are increasingly culturally diverse, which
raises the question how current care landscapes can meet differentiated care needs. Our …

Relationship to place for older adults in a New York City neighborhood undergoing gentrification: A discourse analysis

J Weil - City & Community, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
While many older adults live in neighborhoods undergoing gentrification, research rarely
explores their narratives about the gentrification process and their relationships with …

Inclusive play policies: Disabled children and their access to Dutch playgrounds

R Van Melik, N Althuizen - Tijdschrift voor economische en …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, many cities are still struggling to
facilitate inclusive playgrounds. This paper contributes to our understanding of the everyday …

Social infrastructures and older adults' webs of care: COVID‐19 as spatial breach

ELE Ho, S Gao, SSF Lim - Transactions of the Institute of British …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper argues that the spatial restrictions and social distancing measures which older
adults experienced during COVID‐19 can be interpreted as a spatial breach in their webs of …