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Creative Aging City

By linking the two major contemporary urban challenges, ageing population and creative economy, this research aims to re-visit several notions such as 鈥榓geing鈥 and 鈥榗reative cities鈥, and to propose 鈥榮ustainable social creativity鈥 as a conceptual tool for new urban design of a 鈥榗reative ageing city鈥.

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 鈥 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.

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Chong Keng Hua

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By linking the two major contemporary urban challenges, ageing population and creative economy, this research aims to re-visit several notions such as 鈥榓geing鈥 and 鈥榗reative cities鈥, and to propose 鈥榮ustainable social creativity鈥 as a conceptual tool for new urban design of a 鈥榗reative ageing city鈥. Overlaying the perspectives from urban design theory, urban sociology and cultural geography, the research investigates regional appropriation of 鈥榓ctive ageing鈥 and 鈥榓geing-in-place鈥 in diverse local conditions, and discusses the new emerging trend of 鈥榗reative ageing鈥 through bottom-up, open-source urban initiatives by the senior urbanites.

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