Creative Aging City
Creative Ageing Cities: Place Design with Older People in Asian Cities (2018) brings together multidisciplinary scholastic research on ageing and urban issues from across top six ageing cities in Asia – Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, offering a new urban design framework that emphasises multi-stakeholder collaboration, inter-generational relations and the collective wisdom of older people as a source of creativity.
People Involved
Chong Keng Hua
Project Info
By linking the two major contemporary urban challenges, ageing population and creative economy, this research aims to re-visit several notions such as ‘ageing’ and ‘creative cities’, and to propose ‘sustainable social creativity’ as a conceptual tool for new urban design of a ‘creative ageing city’. Overlaying the perspectives from urban design theory, urban sociology and cultural geography, the research investigates regional appropriation of ‘active ageing’ and ‘ageing-in-place’ in diverse local conditions, and discusses the new emerging trend of ‘creative ageing’ through bottom-up, open-source urban initiatives by the senior urbanites.
Creative Ageing Cities: Place Design with Older People in Asian Cities (Routledge, 2018)
