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Understanding cities: TCP 2028

Understanding Cities: Ageing Cities


CP 2028
Ageing in
the city

As Plouffe and
Kalache (2010)
state
“population aging
and urbanization
are the culmination
of successful
human
development
during the last
century.”
Why is ageing a planning issue?

• Ageing is not a disease to be cured,


nor is the ageing population a
problem to be solved
• Age is a factor that changes how
people relate to the world around
them
• What comes to mind? Over to you
for 10 minutes
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• Healthier wealthier older people drive
innovation in digital tech,
autonomous vehicles, transport as a
Ageing as service, housing innovation that in
an turn promotes business growth and
jobs
opportunity • Do we replace ideas of the frail of
body and empty of purse with the
ageing consumer?
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Transforming the city
centre
What is so special about shops? Why not
clinics? Why not learning spaces? Why not
housing? How do we make develop age
friendly third spaces/liminal uses?
• 65-74 year olds hold a greater % of wealth
than the < 45s (Resolution Foundation,
2018)
• Over half of retail spend already comes
from those aged 45+ (Wrigley and
Lambiri, 2015)
• Households with people aged 65+ are
The older growing, with their spending 2 x as fast as
consumer those <50 (CEBR, 2018)
• More recent cohorts of older people grew
up with consumer culture and more tech
literate
• Retailers failing to cater for the growing o
ver
50s
market | Centre for Ageing Better (ageing
-
better.org.uk)
The shift from collective to individual
solutions

Growing older is acknowledged as a


global concern particularly the demand
for care in the face of changing family
resource BUT Increasingly seen as a
matter for personal responsibility not
collective solutions financed by society.
Age Friendly Cities

• WHO 2007
• Built from participative
enquiry in 33 cities across
the globe
• Holistic - Public health, built
form, Transportation
Infrastructure, access to
amenities, participative
• a city that ‘encourages active ageing by
optimizing opportunities for health,
participation and security in order to enhance
quality of life as people age’ (WHO, 2009)
• “Underpinned by a commitment to respect
and social inclusion, an age-friendly
community is engaged in a strategic and
ongoing process to facilitate active ageing by
What is age- optimising its physical and social
friendliness? environments and its supporting
infrastructure” (Liddle et al. 2013)
• “An age-friendly community strives to find
the best fit between the various needs and
resources of older residents and those of the
community. Age-friendly is dynamic,
addressing changes over time in people and
place” (Keating et al. 2013)
• Alexandre Kalache: Age friendly cities (
youtube.com )

https://www.ageing-better.org.uk/uk-network-age-friendly-communities
“In the view of many planners and policy
makers, the coincidence and
complementary benefits of “age friendly”
represent(s) a golden opportunity to
repair damage done during the
Age suburbanization era and recalibrate
notions of “good planning” to everyone’s
Friendly mutual advantage, including seniors”
Cities
• [Source: Canadian Urban Institute (2011)
Re‐Positioning Age Friendly Communities:
Opportunities to Take AFC Mainstream
Architecture & Design Scotland
(2018) Town Centre Living: A
Caring Place
Responding to inequality
Insecurity of income and
services
“Ageing populations and the vulnerable groups within
them need the certainty of predictable incomes and
services. Yet these are not available to the mass of
older people in developing countries and their supply
appears increasingly precarious to those in the
developed world”
Chris Phillipson [2010] Globalisation, global ageing and inter-generational change in Misa Izuhara (ed.) Ageing and
Intergenerational Relations: Family reciprocity from a global perspective, Bristol, Policy Press, page 25
Promoting social infrastructure

• Community spaces such as community centres and


village hubs
• Public services such as libraries and health services
• Public spaces such as parks and squares. Importance of
toilets
• Commercial spaces such as shops, cafes, banks and
post offices- each place has assets that can be
mobilised and actors with different skill sets
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Toilets

• In 2010 there were 5,159 toilets run by local authorities by 2018


there were 4,486.
• Cornwall had stopped maintaining almost all (94%) of its toilets as
has the Isle of Wight (92%) and North Ayrshire (80%).
• 37 local authorities have no public toilets .
• Highland Council maintains the most (92) with two Welsh
authorities (Gwynedd and Pembrokeshire) maintaining 73 each.
• In some cases, the provision has been handed to parish councils or
to community groups.
• Cornwall runs 14 public toilets compared to 247 in 2011 and
imposes a charge for their use.
• RSPH | Taking the P*** 2019
Seats
Play space

Stenning, A, (2020)
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The freedom to make and remake our cities
and ourselves is…one of the most precious
and neglected human rights [David Harvey,
2009]
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Wuhan- central China
Parallel lives: Neighbourhood D
Older people; those unable to
establish new friendship and
neighbour relations; those who
wound up in areas with
incompatible neighbours; and
above all those who could not
replace the complex networks of
relatives, friends, and neighbours
Making the that existed in the West End, must
same have suffered for many years from
mistakes? forced relocation and may be
suffering still
[Herbert Gans,1982: The Urban
Villagers, New York, The Free
Press, 382].
Take away points

• Ageing is a global issue. It is an issue for you as


much as it is for me.
• Environments in the broadest sense are key in
supporting QOL-it is a shared responsibility
• Age is not one experience-it is cut by diversity
and is dynamic. It takes places against the rise
and decline of localities; shifts in societal values,
impact of austerity (and Covid) on the city and
the neighbourhood
• Accessibility is a major factor but so is inclusion.
• Co-creation – older people as experts in their
lives
The workshop
• Look at the photographs collected by the British
Society of Gerontology and consider the experience of
ageing and the role of inter generational relationships.
• Please also listen to the poem from local award
winning poet, Anna Woodford, about a research study
I was part of some years ago. Consider how we
interact with older people as researchers and as
citizens.
• Poetry in Motion – Anna WoodfordLinks
to an external site.
• Finally watch this short video that captures the
experience of living through urban change in a
creative way!
• Knitting Together - YouTubeLinks to an external site.
In the workshop

Consider the following questions

• Demolition and radical change in place can be


experienced as bereavement. How do we bring
this into our understanding of city development?
• How should professionals engaged in the
planning and design of cities respond to
population ageing?
• If you could change 3 things in the city that
would contribute to urban ageing, what would
they be and why?
References
• Centre for Ageing Better (2021) The missing market.

The missing market: How home retailers can better meet the needs of over 50s

consumers | Centre for Ageing Better (ageing-better.org.uk)

• CEBR (2017) Older entrepreneurs employ more staff than start ups run by younger people, The

Guardian, December 7th

• Coughlin, J. (2020) 8,000 days – an entire phase of your life waiting to be invented, Investment News,

February 14th

• Cox, E., Henderson, G. and Baker, R., (2014). Silver Cities, IPPR .

• Gans,H. (1982) The Urban Villagers, New York, The Free Press

• Phillipson [2010] Globalisation, global ageing and inter-generational change in Misa Izuhara (ed.) Ageing

and Intergenerational Relations: Family reciprocity from a global perspective, Bristol, Policy Press

• Plouffe, L. and Kalache, A., (2010). Towards global age-friendly cities: determining urban features that

promote active aging. Journal of urban health, 87(5), pp. 733-739.

• Resolution Foundation (2018) A new generational contract

• RIBA, (2013). Silver Linings–The Active Third Age and the City.

• WHO (2007) Global Age Friendly Cities: A Guide

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