Aging in place and aging in community has been promoted as innovative and human centered concepts that keep people longer out of institutional care. Heralded as the solution for the highly individualistic and demanding members of the baby boomer generation this way of...
Cities are human ecosystems – they pose challenges and opportunities. They are democratic. As Jane Jacobs said they are about density, diversity and dynamism. With the National Zoning Act of 1923 such diversity became illegal or highly regulated. Both the car and...
The ASA (American Society on Aging) Conference in San Francisco has come to an end. Tessa Ten Tuscher (clinical psychology), Howard Lau (industrial engineering) and I (Susi Stadler – architecture) collaborated on a workshop. The topic was how we can implement a human...
It is obvious that geography impacts the aging experience. There is a difference between countries, between areas within a country, between cities and even between neighborhoods. Sometime during the aging experience everybody has a need for safety, connectedness and...
Planners and city officials in some suburban towns are making efforts to densify their town with the goal to attract retirees who want services close at hand. The European city with their high density and good transportation network is a model planners look to. There...
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