11 Dismantling and rebuilding praxis for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: towards an emancipatory approach

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Series editors’ preface v
4. List of figures and tables vii
5. Notes on contributors viii
6. Acknowledgements xii
7. Background to urban ageing and spatial justice
8. A spatial justice approach to urban ageing research 3
9. Developing age-friendly cities and communities: an international perspective 25
10. Developing age-friendly policies for cities and city-regions during austerity, COVID-19 and beyond: strategies, challenges and reflections 44
11. Paying attention to inequalities in later life: a priority for urban ageing research and policy 61
12. Age-friendly interventions to promote spatial justice
13. Involving marginalised groups of older people in age-friendly programmes: lessons from the Ambition for Ageing programme 85
14. Developing age-friendly communities in areas of urban regeneration 100
15. Co-producing age-friendly community interventions: the Village model 118
16. Redesigning the age-friendly city: the role of architecture in addressing spatial ageism 135
17. The role of community and voluntary organisations in creating spatially just age-friendly cities 156
18. Reimagining age-friendly communities
19. Ageing in the margins: exploring experiences of precarity in urban environments 177
20. Dismantling and rebuilding praxis for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: towards an emancipatory approach 204
21. Conclusion: reimagining age-friendly cities and communities 229
22. Afterword 243
23. Index 246