Shrinking cities as retirement cities? Opportunities for shrinking cities as green living environments for older individuals

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1455-1473

  Nefs, Merten ^a   Alves, Susana ^b   Zasada, Ingo ^c   Haase, Dagmar ^d  

^a Delta Metropolis Association   (Netherlands)

^b OKAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ageing; Environmental affordances; Green open space; Living environment; Quality of life; Retirement migration; Shrinking city; Urban green space

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; GREENSPACE; PLANNING PROCESS; POPULATION MIGRATION; RETIREMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN RENEWAL;

EID: 84879548093     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a45302     Document Type: Article

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