Designing for the Third Age: Architecture Redefined for a Generation of Active Agers

by Ian Deans and Lorraine Farrelly

Highlights how architecture needs to rise to the challenge of a demographic revolution

As people sixty-five and older constitute an ever increasingly proportion of population in most industrialized nations, the design of housing and other built provisions needs to be rethought in order to accommodate this ever-expanding ageing population. How can far-reaching architectural solutions play a key part by creating sustainable cities for the changing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118452720
• ISBN13: 9781118452721
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Academy Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.2" x 10.7"