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Elderburbia |
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Aging with a Sense of Place in America |
Philip B. Stafford
Foreword by Scott Russell Sanders |
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Imprint
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Praeger
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Publication Date |
10/2009 |
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187 |
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1 |
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6 1/8x9 1/4 |
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$44.95
£31.95 |
0-313-36436-2 |
978-0-313-36436-5 |
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0-313-36437-0 |
978-0-313-36437-2 |
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Description
An informed and often moving account of the crucial role of place in the lives of elders and what researchers and city planners are doing—and need to do—to make communities more age-friendly.
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"Elderburbia couldn't be a timelier book, as planning departments across the country are in the process of evaluating the demographics and health and housing needs of their age 65 and older population."
- Journal of the American Planning Association
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"A leader of aging, disability, and community based in Indiana, Stafford contributes only slightly, he says, to fuller discussions elsewhere about how American suburbs will have to be retrofitted for the elderly. His main concern is about the places older people call home, about homemaking in a sense of dwelling and belonging rather than cooking and cleaning. Among his topics are locating old age, memory and the creation of place, aging in third places, new forms of association in old age, and design guidelines for the new elderburbia."
- Reference & Research Book News
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