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Summary:

Review: "This book will be relevant to academics, students, architects, city planners and policy makers with an interest in environmental gerontology, social exclusion, urban sustainability and design of the built environment."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Environmental gerontology
• 3. Urban ageing
• 4. Skid row? : area profiles
• 5. Ageing in deprived neighbourhoods
• 6. Reconceptualising the person-environment relationship
• 7. The way forward - building sustainability
• 8. Influences, opportunities and challenges
• 9. Conclusion
• App. A. Summary of participant characteristics
• App. B. Short biographies of participants in Manchester and Vancouver
• App. C. Mrs MacDougall's short story.

Author/Creator:

Smith, Allison E.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Ageing in urban neighbourhoods: place attachment and social exclusion [by Smith, A.E.]

Related Series:

Ageing and the lifecourse

Subjects:

Urban older people — Western countries — Social conditions

Marginality, Social

Place attachment

Urban older people — Government policy

Urban elderly

Social conditions

Government policy

Western countries

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

vi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Call Numbers:

HQ1061 .S57 2009

ISBNs:

1847422713 (hbk.)
9781847422712 (hbk.)
1847422705 (pbk.)
9781847422705 (pbk.)

OCLC Numbers:

319210716