Planning for Greying Cities: Age-Friendly City Planning and Design Research and Practice highlights how modern town planning and design act as a positive force for population ageing, taking on these challenges from a user-oriented perspective. Although often related to 'healthy city' concepts, the contexts of age-friendly cities and communities (AFCC) were not emphasized until the early 2000s. Planning for Greying Cities is the first book to bring together fundamental and cutting-edge research exploring dimensions of age-friendly cities in different spatial scales. Chapters examine the ageing circumstances and challenges in cities, communities, and rural areas in terms of land use planning, urban design, transport planning, housing, disaster resilience, and governance and empowerment, with international case studies and empirical research results of age-friendly environment studies. It is essential reading for academics and practicians in urban planning, gerontology, transport planning, and environmental design.

About the Author

Tzu-Yuan Stessa Chao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and a Research Fellow in the Healthy City Research Center at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. Her research focuses on demographic change and urban planning systems. She was the first project leader of the National Age-Friendly Cities Program in Taiwan in 2010-2011 and has been highly involved in Age-Friendly Cities research in Taiwan as well as Asia.

Book Information
ISBN 9780367331900
Author Tzu-Yuan Stessa Chao
Format Paperback
Page Count 180
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 290g