Community Governance in Age-Friendly Community Regeneration—A Case Study on Installing Elevators in Old Residential Buildings
The rise in aging world populations poses enormous concerns, among which is the critical topic of how to promote active aging by improving the health and well-being of the elderly. Accordingly, installing elevators in old residential buildings has become a main issue in age-friendly community regene...
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| description | The rise in aging world populations poses enormous concerns, among which is the critical topic of how to promote active aging by improving the health and well-being of the elderly. Accordingly, installing elevators in old residential buildings has become a main issue in age-friendly community regeneration to make it easier for the elderly to go outside. There is limited evidence on stakeholder involvement in age-friendly community regeneration. Some studies have overlooked the fact that fostering age-friendly communities in developing countries requires innovative governance for inclusive physical and social features despite the low awareness of citizen engagement. With reference to community governance as a structure and process, a theoretical framework is proposed to understand the practice of elevator installation in age-friendly community regeneration in Guangzhou, China. This study adopted the questionnaire survey method and collected 455 valid samples (150 valid samples with installed elevators; 305 valid samples did not install elevators). The findings led to the following conclusions: (1) shared common interests lead to effective community governance and smooth elevator installation; (2) some communities failed to install elevators due to opposition from people whose interests were hindered; and (3) it is important to set up self-governing organizations and find key people in community governance for interest-based negotiation. This paper’s contribution is that it makes up for the deficiency in the previous research that has neglected the elderly’s participation in public affairs via age-friendly community regeneration. Finally, this study suggests further research on the dynamic processes of different types of age-friendly community regeneration affairs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-824500fa68794d8c85338fa205d1c8af2024-01-29T13:48:46ZengMDPI AGBuildings2075-53092024-01-0114112510.3390/buildings14010125Community Governance in Age-Friendly Community Regeneration—A Case Study on Installing Elevators in Old Residential BuildingsKailun Fang0Yifei Wu1Lu Jiao2Guangzhou Urban Planning and Design Co., Ltd., Guangzhou 510030, ChinaSchool of Architectural Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic University, Shenzhen 518055, ChinaGuangzhou Urban Planning and Design Co., Ltd., Guangzhou 510030, ChinaThe rise in aging world populations poses enormous concerns, among which is the critical topic of how to promote active aging by improving the health and well-being of the elderly. Accordingly, installing elevators in old residential buildings has become a main issue in age-friendly community regeneration to make it easier for the elderly to go outside. There is limited evidence on stakeholder involvement in age-friendly community regeneration. Some studies have overlooked the fact that fostering age-friendly communities in developing countries requires innovative governance for inclusive physical and social features despite the low awareness of citizen engagement. With reference to community governance as a structure and process, a theoretical framework is proposed to understand the practice of elevator installation in age-friendly community regeneration in Guangzhou, China. This study adopted the questionnaire survey method and collected 455 valid samples (150 valid samples with installed elevators; 305 valid samples did not install elevators). The findings led to the following conclusions: (1) shared common interests lead to effective community governance and smooth elevator installation; (2) some communities failed to install elevators due to opposition from people whose interests were hindered; and (3) it is important to set up self-governing organizations and find key people in community governance for interest-based negotiation. This paper’s contribution is that it makes up for the deficiency in the previous research that has neglected the elderly’s participation in public affairs via age-friendly community regeneration. Finally, this study suggests further research on the dynamic processes of different types of age-friendly community regeneration affairs.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/14/1/125community governanceelderly peoplecommunity regenerationinstalling elevators |
| spellingShingle | Kailun Fang Yifei Wu Lu Jiao Community Governance in Age-Friendly Community Regeneration—A Case Study on Installing Elevators in Old Residential Buildings Buildings community governance elderly people community regeneration installing elevators |
| title | Community Governance in Age-Friendly Community Regeneration—A Case Study on Installing Elevators in Old Residential Buildings |
| title_full | Community Governance in Age-Friendly Community Regeneration—A Case Study on Installing Elevators in Old Residential Buildings |
| title_fullStr | Community Governance in Age-Friendly Community Regeneration—A Case Study on Installing Elevators in Old Residential Buildings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Community Governance in Age-Friendly Community Regeneration—A Case Study on Installing Elevators in Old Residential Buildings |
| title_short | Community Governance in Age-Friendly Community Regeneration—A Case Study on Installing Elevators in Old Residential Buildings |
| title_sort | community governance in age friendly community regeneration a case study on installing elevators in old residential buildings |
| topic | community governance elderly people community regeneration installing elevators |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/14/1/125 |
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