Aging, contested meanings, and the built environment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4139788 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glenda Laws (Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1787-1802 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a261787 |
| OpenAlex | W4247050884 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 30 |
Recognition that old age is a socially defined category challenges conventional analyses of the geography of aging. In this paper I call for a political analysis of the ways in which the built environment is implicated in the reproduction of, and challenges to, labels associated with aging populations and thus with the construction of elderly identities. The role of struggles around the built environment in changing definitions of old age is illustrated with a case study from Toronto
Aesthetics · Aging in place · Art · Biology · Built environment · Civil engineering · Economic geography · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Political science · Politics · Reproduction · Sociology · Aging and Gerontology Research · Engineering · Gender Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · Law · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Philosophy · Ecology · Gerontology
Assessing social quality of sheltered independent housing
Experiencing racism
The Accessibility of Public Spaces for People with Dementia
The Role of Housing Space in Determining Freedom and Flourishing in Older People
Understanding Daily Life of Older People in a Residential Complex
Residential complexes in Queensland, Australia
Socialising place attachment
The problems and possibilities of mobility for home-based elders in New Zealand
Everyday Mobility of Elderly People in Different Urban Settings
Employability and flexible retirement
Geographies of age
The ageing body and the homespace
Spaces for Feminism in Geography
The Images Used to “Sell” and Represent Retirement Communities
A New Sense of Self and a New Lease of Life
Rethinking the geography of ageing
(Teen)Age is More than a Number
Tourism and older residents in a sunbelt resort
Coordinating Employment, Transport and Housing in Cities
New-build Studentification
The socio-spatial stigmatization of homelessness and HIV/Aids
Utilising Space in Sheltered Housing or 'Fitting a Quart into a Pint Pot
Difference and the Negotiation of 'Old Age
Female artistic identity in place
The Power of geography
How Old Are You?
Capitalism and the Construction of Old Age
Old Age in the New Land
Place and personal identity in old age
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?
Maps of Meaning
Contested Ground
What's rural about rural aging? An Appalachian perspective ∗
Mandatory Retirement Policy
Old Age Pensions and Policy-Making in Canada
The Geography of Ageing and the Aged
Geographical questions in gerontology
Changing Residence
Growing Old in the Twentieth Century
Societal Impact on Aging
Landscapes of Old Age in Coastal British Columbia
The Land of Old Age”
Negotiating ethnicity in an uncertain environment
Oppression, knowledge and the built environment
The politics of the streets
The Cultural Politics of Masculinity
Toward an Analysis of the Role of Gay Communities in the Urban Renaissance
Gender relations and the spatial structure of the city
The Idea of Chinatown
Cultural Hegemony and the Race-Definition Process in Chinatown, Vancouver
Street Life
The Welfare State and Canadian Federalism
City of Green Benches
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,29 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2017 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |