Towards human-centric planning: Older people's everyday life in neighbourhood spaces in Singapore's public housing

《Towards human-centric planning: Older people's everyday life in neighbourhood spaces in Singapore's public housing》

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作者: Yuxin Cao;Chye Kiang Heng;John Chye Fung

来源: HABITAT INTERNATIONAL,Vol.127,P.102649

语言: 英文

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作者单位: Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117566, Singapore;Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117566, Singapore;School of the Built Environment, Kyambogo University, P.O. Box 1, Kampala, Uganda;Institute of Human Settlements Studies, Ardhi University, P. O. Box 35124, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria;Department of Geoinformatics and Surveying, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria;Department of Management, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria;Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China;Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore;Urban and Regional Planning Department, University of Colorado Denver, CO, USA;Department of Geography & Earth Sciences, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA;College of Arts and Architecture, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA;School of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, China;Department of Geography and Resource Management, and Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China;Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China;College of Applied Arts and Science, Beijing Union University, Beijing, 100191, China;Land and Urban-Rural Development Research Institute, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, 310018, China;School of Public Affairs Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China;Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

摘要: Creating age-friendly environments to enable ageing-in-place has attracted tremendous attention since World Health Organisation launched the Global Age-friendly Cities Project. Learned from British new towns and the Neighbourhood Unit, Singapore's public housing is planned based on abstract planning models. It is acknowledged as a success story of high-rise living and influences housing development in China and other countries. Using Yuhua East neighbourhood as a study case, this article takes a bottom-up approach to examine whether Singapore's public housing, particularly its neighbourhood spaces (i.e., neighbourhood centre, precinct centre, park and green space, void deck, community and eldercare institution, and route), match older people’ spatial experiences and everyday needs. This article argues that abstract planning models and functionalist design approaches result in car-centric planning and space fragmentation. It highlights the necessity to practice human-centric design and plan neighbourhood spaces as parts of a highly cohesive urban space system rather than fragmented pieces.

《Towards human-centric planning: Older people&#39;s everyday life in neighbourhood spaces in Singapore&#39;s public housing》

《Towards human-centric planning: Older people's everyday life in neighbourhood spaces in Singapore's public housing》