From representation to active ageing in a Manchester neighbourhood: designing the age-friendly city
From representation to active ageing in a Manchester neighbourhood: designing the age-friendly city
Chapter 10 explores what it means to use a ‘capability’ approach to designing an age-friendly city, including its potential for offering new ways of producing and occupying physical and social environments that respond directly to the lived experiences of older people. Drawing on a interdisciplinary community engaged research/urban design project in Manchester, UK, the chapter examines the applicability of AFCC design guidance within a specific urban neighbourhood, and explores how the process of discovering and sharing information about the lived experience of older residents translates into the development and implementation of age-friendly activities focused around urban design.
Keywords: Age-friendly cities and communities, Population ageing, Urban planning, Urban design, Coproduction, Community empowerment
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