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Jan 8, 2013
Sustainable, Age-Friendly Cities: An Evaluative Case Study
Authors: Jacobo Ruza [email protected], Jung In Kim, Ivan Leung, Conor Coyan, Anran Li, Calvin Kam [email protected], and Sandy Ng [email protected]Author Affiliations
Publication: ICSDEC 2012: Developing the Frontier of Sustainable Design, Engineering, and Construction
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The aging population has a tremendous impact on our community and resources. Planning age-friendly cities is a sustainable solution towards healthy aging and health resources allocation. Our research team developed a framework to systematically evaluate the age-friendliness of cities. The framework encompassed multiple criteria and included assessment using web-based Geographical Information System (GIS) tools. We applied our analytical framework to Palo Alto, Stanford as an illustrative case study. The study site was chosen due to its unique characteristics (% seniors is 30% higher than US average, 80% of whom expressed the desire to continue living in this community) and its proximity to us allowing easy site visits and data access. In this paper, we discuss the results of our analyses, as well as our development of an Age-Friendly Cities Scorecard to translate guidelines into tangible and measureable action items.
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ICSDEC 2012: Developing the Frontier of Sustainable Design, Engineering, and Construction
Pages: 196 - 203
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© 2013 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Jan 8, 2013
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UC Berkeley professional student of Sustainable Design and Project Management programs; Architect by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). E-mail: [email protected]
Jung In Kim
Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, The Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building; 473 Via Ortega, Room 292, MC:4020; Stanford, CA 94305-4020
Ivan Leung
Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, The Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building; 473 Via Ortega, Room 292, MC:4020; Stanford, CA 94305-4020
Conor Coyan
Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, The Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building; 473 Via Ortega, Room 292, MC:4020; Stanford, CA 94305-4020
Anran Li
Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, The Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building; 473 Via Ortega, Room 292, MC:4020; Stanford, CA 94305-4020
Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, The Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building; 473 Via Ortega, Room 292, MC:4020; Stanford, CA 94305-4020. E-mail: [email protected]
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Carruthers Hall, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada. K7L 3N6.E-mail: [email protected]
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