TY - JOUR
AU - Phillips, Judith
AU - Walford, Nigel
AU - Hockey, Ann
AU - Sparks, Leigh
PY - 2021
DA - January
TI - Older People, Town Centres and the Revival of the 'High Street'
JO - Planning Theory and Practice
EP - 26
VL - 22
IS - 1
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2021.1875030
AB - Concern for the future of town centres and their retail cores, the ‘high street’, is not new. Responses to this have often been somewhat one dimensional, focusing on their role as places of consumption, employment, leisure and heritage. We consider the potential multiple roles of older people in helping revive and rejuvenate town centres given the centrality of place for healthy supportive living, community and social participation and ‘ageing in place’. Taking an environmental gerontology perspective, we ask whether the WHO age friendly cities/communities’ framework should be considered further in approaches to reviving town centres in a post-Covid-19 world.
PB - Taylor and Francis
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1893/32148
KW - Older people
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER