Planning for Greying Cities

<p><em>Planning for Greying Cities: Age-Friendly City Planning and Design Research and Practice</em> highlights how modern town planning and design act as a positive force for population ageing taking on these challenges from a user-oriented perspective. Although often related to 'healthy city' concepts the contexts of age-friendly cities and communities (AFCC) were not emphasized until the early 2000s. <i>Planning for Greying Cities</i> is the first book to bring together fundamental and cutting-edge research exploring dimensions of age-friendly cities in different spatial scales. Chapters examine the ageing circumstances and challenges in cities communities and rural areas in terms of land use planning urban design transport planning housing disaster resilience and governance and empowerment with international case studies and empirical research results of age-friendly environment studies. It is essential reading for academics and practicians in urban planning gerontology transport planning and environmental design.</p>