Creative Ageing Cities - Place Design With Older People in Asian Cities

This book discusses the contribution of ageing population as a productive and creative force towards urban design particularly in high-density urban contexts, as observed in a collection of empirical cases found in rapidly ageing Asian cities.

List of contents

Introduction (Keng Hua CHONG and Mihye CHO) Part I: Singapore 1. Reclamation of Urban Voids and the Return of the "Kampung Spirit" in Singapore's Public Housing (Keng Hua CHONG) 2. A Case Study in Re-imagining Healthy Communities (Sweet Fun WONG) Part II: Taipei 3. Regenerating Public Life for Ageing Communities through the Choreography of Place-ballets and the Weaving of Memory Tapestries (Min Jay KANG) Part III: Seoul 4. Fostering Government-Citizen Collaboration and Inter-generational Cooperation: The Alternative Neighbourhood Regeneration Project in Jangsu, Seoul (Jiyoun KIM and Mihye CHO) Part IV: Hong Kong 5. Participatory Action Research: Public Space Design by Older People (Jackie Yan Chi KWOK) 6. A Participatory Design Experience with Older People: Case Study of Participatory Design in the HKSKH Tseung Kwan O Aged Care Complex Project (Robert Kin Ming WONG, Crystal Man Chong HO, and Gwyneth Wing Lam CHAN) Part V: Shanghai 7. New Prototype for Ageing-in-Place in Megacities: An Empirical Study of Shanghai (Dong YAO) Part VI: Tokyo 8. Community Design to Prevent Solitary Death in Super-Aged Japan (Toshio OTSUKI) Conclusion (Mihye CHO and Keng Hua CHONG)

About the author

Keng Hua Chong is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design and leads the Social Urban Research Groupe (SURGe) at Singapore University of Technology and Design. His works are included in International Perspectives on Age-friendly Cities (2015) and Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability (2017).
Mihye Cho is Assistant Professor of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) at Singapore University of Technology and Design. She has written about urban studies, cultural studies, ageing, and education.

Summary

This book discusses the contribution of ageing population as a productive and creative force towards urban design particularly in high-density urban contexts, as observed in a collection of empirical cases found in rapidly ageing Asian cities.

Product details

• Authors: Keng Hua (Singapore University of Technolog Chong
• Assisted by: Mihye Cho (Editor), Mihye (Singapore University of Technology and Design Cho (Editor), Keng Hua CHONG (Editor), Keng Hua (Singapore University of Technology and Design Chong (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780367504205
• ISBN: 978-0-367-50420-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional, Urban & municipal planning, Age groups: the elderly, urban economics, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, Regional / urban economics