Ageing and Urban Planning - Paperback

by Matthias Drilling (Editor), Pamela Suero (Editor), Hind Al-Shoubaki (Editor)

The book provides a critical analysis of urban planning in the face of demographic change, emphasising the importance of international approaches and practices to address age-friendly planning. It offers a critique of popular narratives on ageing and urban planning while presenting diverse case studies on a variety of spatial scales.

Author Biography

Matthias Drilling is a social geographer, spatial planner, licensed consultant at the German Sustainable Building Council, and full professor at the Department of Social Work, Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland.

Pamela Suero is a PhD researcher at the Society and Ageing Research Lab from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

Hind Al-Shoubaki is an Architect, urban planner, and Research Associate at the Institute for Social Planning, Organisational Change, and Urban Development at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland.

Fabian Neuhaus is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Calgary in Canada.