Growing Old in Cities. Council Housing Estates in Trieste as Laboratories for New Perspectives in Urban Planning

• Authors: Bricocoli, Massimo , Marchigiani, Elena

Abstracts

EN

Significant ageing processes are affecting many regions across Europe and are changing the social and spatial profile of cities. In Trieste, Italy, a joint initiative by the public Health Agency and the Social Housing Agency has developed a programme targeting conditions that allow people to age at home. The outcomes of the programme stress the need to redesign and reorganise the living environment as a way to oppose to the institutionalisation of older people in specialised nursing homes. Based on intensive field work, this contribution presents and discusses the original and innovative inputs that the case study is offering to the Italian and European debate.

Keywords

EN

ageing; council housing estates; public action; urban planning; welfare policies; Trieste; Italy

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: European Spatial Research and Policy
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2012-07-26

Contributors

author

Bricocoli, Massimo

author

Marchigiani, Elena

other

Bricocoli, Massimo - Department of Architecture and Planning, Polytechnic of Milano, Italy

other

Marchigiani, Elena - Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, Italy

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/10807