Ageing in Place in Urban Environments

Tine Buffel is Professor of Sociology and Social Gerontology at the University of Manchester, UK, where she leads the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group. Her research primarily focuses on issues of inequality, ageing in place, and underlying processes of spatial and social exclusion in later life. Much of her work has involved co-production methodologies, building on partnerships with older people, local authorities, and community organisations to study and address equity and justice issues in urban environments. She has published widely in the field of ageing and age-friendly cities, contributing a critical lens to the study of urban ageing and assisting the development of policies to improve the experience of ageing in cities.Chris Phillipson is Professor of Sociology and Social Gerontology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK. He has led a number of research programmes in the field of ageing concerned with family and community life in old age, problems of poverty and social exclusion, social theory and ageing, and issues relating to urbanisation and migration. His theoretical work has focused on developing a critical gerontology which explores and challenges some of the dominant social and cultural assumptions made about ageing and ageing societies. He has published a number of books in the field of ageing and a variety of papers on age-friendly issues.

• 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

"This major study addresses the global experience of urbanisation combined with population ageing. The book, from two leading scholars in the field, provides a challenging account of ageing in place, neighbourhood change, and the future of age-friendly cities. It highlights spatial justice for older people as of fundamental importance in confronting inequalities in contrasting urban environments."Sheila Peace, Emeritus Professor of Social Gerontology, The Open University, UK"This book presents a tour de force integration of scholarship across disciplines to propel the age-friendly cities movement into the 21st century. While not minimizing the gravity of compounding societal challenges, the authors describe clear directions for policy and practice that are within reach of advocates and decision-makers across sectors."Emily A. Greenfield, Professor at the Rutgers School of Social Work, The State University of New Jersey, USA"This important book presents a much-needed critical assessment of the challenges related to growing older in urban communities. It offers a cohesive, analytical frame that not only advances scholarship on urban aging, but on how we understand, support and give voice to the dynamic relationship between older people and their places."Kieran Walsh, Professor of Ageing and Public Policy, University of Galway, Ireland