The vital role of street design and management in reducing barriers to older peoples' mobility

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 35, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 181-192

  Lavery, Irvine ^a,b   Davey, Shannon ^b   Woodside, Alan ^a   Ewart, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Disability Action   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elderly; Mobility; Planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030221568     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-2046(96)00309-X     Document Type: Article

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