Ageing in Place in Urban Environments : Critical Perspectives (Paperback)

Part 1: Critical perspectives on ageing in place in urban environments: Background, theory and development  1. Introduction: Ageing in place in urban environments  2. Population ageing and urbanisation: Developing age-friendly cities  3. Urbanisation, inequality and community: Experiences of ageing in place  4. Ageing in neighbourhoods undergoing urban change: Experiences of gentrification in later life  5. Experience of ageing in place among ageing migrants living in urban neighbourhoods  6. Growing older in ‘extreme cities’: The impact of climate change  Part 2: Re-building urban communities for ageing populations  7. The role of social infrastructure as centres of community life in supporting ageing in place in cities  8. Enacting ‘agency’ through place-making and activism: Older people as local agents of urban change  9. Towards a collaborative urbanism: Building collective organisations for later life  10. Ageing populations and urban communities: An agenda for change