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Inside retirement housing : designing, developing and sustaining later lifestyles /
Through stories and visual vignettes, it presents a range of stakeholders involved in the design, construction, management and habitation of third-age housing in the UK, highlighting the importance of design decisions for the everyday lives of older people.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2023.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Inside Retirement Housing: Designing, Developing and Sustaining Later Lifestyles
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of vignettes
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Housing needs of older people
- This book
- Motivation
- Mainstreaming of a discourse on ageing
- Quality housing contributes
- Architectural practice
- Notes on method
- Structure of this book
- Part I Ageing
- 1 Ageing context
- 2 Specialist accommodation
- Almshousing
- Veteran hospitals
- Royal Hospital Chelsea
- The 'deserving poor'
- Workhouse provisions
- Cottage homes
- Public assistance institutions
- Specialist housing evolved
- 3 Baby boomers
- Synopsis
- Methods
- Reinventing retirement
- Identity
- Thinking about moving
- Meanings of home
- Home and future-proofing
- Retirement housing explained
- Motive for moving
- Gardens and layouts
- Building tour
- Conclusion
- 4 Vulnerable friend
- Synopsis
- Methods
- An 'old' friend
- First impressions
- Home environment analysis
- Environmental challenges
- Apparatus
- Little corner
- Loneliness
- Home care
- Away from home
- A 'Home'
- Staying put
- Conclusion
- Part II Villas
- 5 Villa context
- Sheltered housing
- Extra Care housing
- 6 Developer director
- Synopsis
- Methods
- Part A
- Part B
- Businessman
- Business habitat
- Part C
- Rationale
- Repeat event
- Florida Fieldtrip
- Rationalising design
- MD piece
- Tweaks only
- Needs orientated
- Retirement-living
- Selling lifestyle
- Educating customers
- Popular product
- Going forward
- Market position
- Un-HAPPI
- Keeping it simple
- KISS
- Cost control
- Build cost science
- Tough negotiating
- Location matters
- Standing strong
- Planning service
- Take advantage
- Conclusion
- 7 Resident owner
- Synopsis
- Methods.
- Consumer profile
- Home identities
- Motives for moving
- Transitions
- Living differently
- The shared lounge
- Home reports
- Conclusion
- 8 Villa manager
- Synopsis
- Methods
- Background
- Job description
- Villa inspector?
- The week ahead
- Monday morning
- Managing expectations
- Duty of care
- Fish and chips
- Lounge musings
- Tuesday morning
- Design review
- A quiet afternoon
- Police!
- Wednesday, mourning
- Conclusion
- Part III Professionals
- 9 Professional context
- 10 Architecture student
- Synopsis
- Methods
- Background
- Career prospects
- 'Ageing Town' studio
- Research outputs
- Design outputs
- Studio outcomes
- Fast ethnography
- Year end
- The young architect
- Discussion
- 11 Company architect
- Synopsis
- Methods
- Author's commentary
- Research poems
- The Driver
- Design Huddle
- Day Release
- Informants
- In 2050
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- 12 Town planner
- Synopsis
- Methods
- Inquiry
- Victor
- Rachel
- The appellants
- Rare sighting
- Regional review
- Expertise
- Identity problem
- Critical role
- Conclusion
- Part IV Reflections
- 13 Design tweaks
- Synopsis
- Methods
- Points of reference
- Industry insights
- Design case study
- Practice reflection
- Design culture
- Measuring change
- Limitations to change
- Conclusion
- Postscript
- 14 Retirement reviewed
- Research anthology
- Looking forward
- Getting an outside view
- Last note on method
- 15 Global outlook
- Step change
- A new normal for architecture
- Lifestyle options
- Collective living
- Retirement tourism
- Valuing housing
- Future challenges
- References
- Index
- Back Cover.