Elderly Housing and Neighborhood Planning

As mixed-use neighborhoods integrating dwelling, commercial and civic capacities decline and disappear, so too do the particular advantages of everyday life that they embody. The popular acclaim bestowed on housing developments such as Seaside, Florida is some indication of how truly rare the practice of integrated living is today. For the elderly however, mixed-use neighborhoods may prove to be an essential support structure, one that could affect the rates at which they need to be institutionalized.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Intl.1995.71

Volume Editors
John K. Edwards