ISBN:
9781839827402
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (145 pages)
Series Statement:
Emerald Points Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.2
Keywords:
City planning-Social aspects
Abstract:
Creating Spaces for an Ageing Societyconsiders the existing social science literature on shared neighbourhood spaces through the perspective of an ageing population. It asks the question; how can we use social infrastructure to build local neighbourhoods that are supportive of the social relationships we need in later life?.
Abstract:
Cover -- CREATING SPACES FOR AN AGEING SOCIETY -- CREATING SPACES FOR AN AGEING SOCIETY: The Role of Critical Social Infrastructure -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1. Thinking Infrastructurally about an Ageing Society -- The Infrastructural Turn -- Ageing Populations -- Addressing Loneliness and Isolation - The Importance of Social Connections in Later Life -- Age-Friendly Cities and Communities -- What This Book Will Do -- 2. Understanding Social Infrastructure and Social Connections -- A Conceptual Framework of Social Infrastructure -- The Places -- The Interactions -- Social Capital -- Social Infrastructure and Age-Friendly Communities -- The Diversity of Social Infrastructure -- 3. Outside Venues and Public Spaces -- Public Space -- Green Space -- Passing Places for Interactions with Diversity -- 4. Organised Activity, Public Services and Institutions -- Organised Activity -- Community and Voluntary Sector -- Day Centres -- Volunteering -- Religious Organisations -- Leisure Activities -- Public Services and Institutions -- Schools and other Educational Institutions -- Public Libraries -- Public Transport -- A Space in Which to Bring People Together -- 5. Commercial Venues -- Retail and Commercial Services -- Markets -- Commercial and Personal Services -- Eating, Drinking and Talking -- Cafes, Coffee Shops and Restaurants -- Pubs -- Informal and Unassuming: Spaces of Everyday Interactions -- 6. Everyday Spaces of Intergenerational Encounter -- Intergenerational Connections and Relationships -- Everyday Encounters Across Difference -- Social Infrastructures of Intergenerational Relationships -- 7. Pressures on Social Infrastructure: Urban Development, Austerity and the Coronavirus Pandemic -- Urban Development and Regeneration -- Austerity -- The Coronavirus Pandemic.
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