Dense and ageing: Social sustainability of public places amidst high-density development
We argue it is time to revisit urban development frameworks to bring in more social and people-centric approaches to designing and managing cities. Especially in high density urban contexts where people face constant challenges of negotiating diversity in close proximity, and as global populations a...
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| author | Fischer, Michael M. J. |
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| description | We argue it is time to revisit urban development frameworks to bring in more social and people-centric approaches to designing and managing cities. Especially in high density urban contexts where people face constant challenges of negotiating diversity in close proximity, and as global populations age, new design issues are posed for such components of social sustainability as liveability, quality of life, accessibility, equity, health, happiness, social capital, and civic participation. It is projected that senior citizens will make up 21.1% of the world population by 2050 (UN, 2013). Increased information availability make participatory changes in urban planning processes feasible, and will increasingly be demanded by new generations of seniors who are more educated, active and empowered.
Top-down institutional urban planning cannot capture |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1173552022-09-29T12:40:16Z Dense and ageing: Social sustainability of public places amidst high-density development Fischer, Michael M. J. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society Fischer, Michael, J. Fischer, Michael M. J. We argue it is time to revisit urban development frameworks to bring in more social and people-centric approaches to designing and managing cities. Especially in high density urban contexts where people face constant challenges of negotiating diversity in close proximity, and as global populations age, new design issues are posed for such components of social sustainability as liveability, quality of life, accessibility, equity, health, happiness, social capital, and civic participation. It is projected that senior citizens will make up 21.1% of the world population by 2050 (UN, 2013). Increased information availability make participatory changes in urban planning processes feasible, and will increasingly be demanded by new generations of seniors who are more educated, active and empowered. Top-down institutional urban planning cannot capture 2018-08-14T14:17:55Z 2018-08-14T14:17:55Z 2017-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookItem 978-1-138-68039-5 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117355 Chong, Keng Hua et al. "Dense and Ageing: Social sustainability of public places amidst high-density development." Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability, edited by Joo Hwa P. Bay and Steffen Lehmann, Routledge, 2017. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2871-5943 en_US http://doi.org/10.4324/9781315563831 Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Routledge Prof. Fischer via Michelle Baildon |
| spellingShingle | Fischer, Michael M. J. Dense and ageing: Social sustainability of public places amidst high-density development |
| title | Dense and ageing: Social sustainability of public places amidst high-density development |
| title_full | Dense and ageing: Social sustainability of public places amidst high-density development |
| title_fullStr | Dense and ageing: Social sustainability of public places amidst high-density development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dense and ageing: Social sustainability of public places amidst high-density development |
| title_short | Dense and ageing: Social sustainability of public places amidst high-density development |
| title_sort | dense and ageing social sustainability of public places amidst high density development |
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