Creating spaces for an ageing society : the role of critical social infrastructure /

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 relationshi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yarker, Sophie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
Colección:Emerald Points
Temas:
City planning > Social aspects.
Older people > Social life and customs.
Public spaces.
Electronic books.
Personnes âgées > Mœurs et coutumes.
Espaces publics.
Livres numériques.
e-books.
City planning > Social aspects
Public spaces
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • The Uneven Geography of Social Infrastructure
  • 8. An Infrastructural Approach to an Age-Friendly Recovery
  • An Ecosystem of Social Infrastructure for Age-Friendly Communities
  • A New Research Agenda
  • An Infrastructural Approach to Age-Friendly Communities
  • Post-Pandemic Infrastructures
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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