Utilising space in sheltered housing or 'fitting a quart into a pint pot': Perspectives of architects and older people

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 761-776

  Fairhurst, Eileen ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ELDERLY POPULATION; PERCEPTION; SPATIAL COGNITION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034494839     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d36j     Document Type: Article

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