This month we ask whether our built environment serves older adults well as they age—and how that has an impact on all of us, regardless of age.
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Want to read more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:
- Improving with age? How city design is adapting to older populations
- Designing Better Urban Spaces for the Aging
- Designing cities for the aged | E&T Magazine
- To build an inclusive smart city, look through an age-friendly lens
- Cities Alive: Designing for ageing communities
- Co-designing Urban Living Solutions to Improve Older People's Mobility and Well-Being
- Improving housing and neighborhoods for the vulnerable: older people, small households, urban design, and planning
- How Cities Can Design for Aging Baby Boomers
- Creative Ageing Cities: Place Design with Older People in Asian Cities: Foreward
- Planning and an Aging Population
- How can cities become more inclusive for elderly people? | World Economic Forum
- The cities designing playgrounds for the elderly
- Age-Friendly Built Environments: Opportunities for Local Government
- What Do Seniors Need in Parks?
- Planning for Aging-Friendly Communities
- Five Innovative Ways Cities Are Improving Life for Seniors
- Ten questions concerning age-friendly cities and communities and the built environment