Ageing Cities Feb 2024 - Tagged-Compressed-Compressed-Compressed
Ageing Cities Feb 2024 - Tagged-Compressed-Compressed-Compressed
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?
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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
• 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
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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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
The missing market: How home retailers can better meet the needs of over 50s
• CEBR (2017) Older entrepreneurs employ more staff than start ups run by younger people, The
• Coughlin, J. (2020) 8,000 days – an entire phase of your life waiting to be invented, Investment News,
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• 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
• RIBA, (2013). Silver Linings–The Active Third Age and the City.