NDLI: Housing the elderly: segregated in senior cities or integrated in urban society?

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Author	Smets, Anton J. H.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Ageing is driving the demand for housing for seniors in the Netherlands. The current urban planning ‘cluster policy’ is mainly conducive to the construction of luxury inner-city apartments for seniors. Much less attention is given to the demand for dwellings for seniors outside the cities and for low- and middle-income households. Should the government accommodate this demand by constructing accessible dwellings? And would a ‘senior city’ be a suitable framework for this purpose? The issue is whether senior citizens actually want to live together in a district, village or city. Would they want to move there if these senior cities were some distance away from other (age) groups, family, friends and services such as shops and care? We question whether the demand for senior cities is sufficiently strong to warrant abandoning the European planning principle of clustering. Doing so would lead to fragmentation of the landscape and less support for services in urbanized areas. The impetus for this study came from the major shortage of accessible housing in the Netherlands and a recent initiative to build a senior city of 1,500 dwellings in the province of Flevoland.
Starting Page	225
Ending Page	239
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15664910
Journal	Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
Volume Number	27
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15737772
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-12-24
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Ageing Demand and supply Housing market Senior city Urban planning Clustering policy Segregation Support for (care) services Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning Geography (general) Human Geography
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies

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