Designing and developing inclusive urban environments
- 1. Designing and Developing Inclusive Urban Environments in The Global South Rethinking the Informality Contemporary Urban Issues Conference – DAKAM Istanbul Chiko Ncube Doctoral Researcher at SURFACE Inclusive Design Research Centre University of Salford, United Kingdom
- 2. • Demographic Transitions • What is Inclusive Design? • PhD Research Design • WHO Age-friendly Cities • Questions that begin to arise
- 3. A world in transition… • Continuing population growth • Additional 2.5 Billion people to the urban population by 2050 • Globally, more people projected to be living in urban areas
- 5. People over 60 Another transition… Global Ageing Photo taken by Ira de Reuver
- 7. PhD Research What is to be done in designing and developing inclusive environments? How can inclusive urban environments be achieved in developing countries? • How can the best practice in inclusive urban environments in developed countries be used as a paradigm for developing countries? (Age-friendly cities – Manchester) • Analyse the major challenges experienced in less developed settings to develop inclusive urban environments and the practical steps to overcome them
- 8. Functional capacity The Determinants of Active Ageing Creating Urban Environments for Older People: WHO Age-friendly Cities What is an Age-friendly city? • An Age-friendly city encourages active ageing by optimizing opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age. • An age-friendly city adapts its structures and services to be accessible to and inclusive of older people with varying needs and capacities.
- 9. Eight Domains of Age-friendliness Urban landscape and the built environment Social environment Global Network of Age-friendly Cities 2010
- 10. Early life Adult life Older Age Disability Threshold Age FunctionalCapacity • The incidence of disability increases with age • Decline of functional capacity (Adapted from Kalache and Kickbusch,1997)
- 11. Maintaining functional capacity over the life course Early life Growth and development Adult life Maintaining highest Possible level of function Older Age Maintaining independence and Preventing disability Age FunctionalCapacity (Adapted from Kalache and Kickbusch,1997) Disability Threshold Environmental changes can lower the disability threshold
- 12. Questions that begin to arise • How far can the Age-friendly Cities programme be taken in less developed settings? • What radical adjustments and innovative delivery models need to be in place in areas of accelerating urbanization and informal city settlements? • What challenges are involved in designing and developing urban environments in the Global South? • What evidence based framework can be introduced to support developing countries in the design and development of inclusive urban environments and contribute to policy and practice? Source:Thomas Reuters/CBM website