From Precarity to Interdependence
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 257935
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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10.4324/9780429470684-9
- Book title
- Designing Future Cities for Wellbeing
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780429470684
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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A - Architecture
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Based on the four-year ‘Manchester Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods’ (MAFN) research programme, this chapter explores issues of social, economic and political precarity in later life and how it can be addressed through architectural design-research. The chapter responds to emerging discourses of a young ‘precariat’ class, typified by ‘Generation Rent’ and zero-hours contracts, and argues for an expanded definition of precarity that addresses inequalities in later life. The chapter draws novel links between theories of precarity, space and ‘Age-Friendly Cities’, investigated through innovative design-research approaches which have since been recognised at an international best practice in the field of urban ageing. The MAFN programme was funded by Big Lottery Fund (£950,000) and has engaged with over 1,000 older people in the co-production of research-led neighbourhood action plans. The programme has supported older people to create 150 projects and initiatives in their communities, with a value of £300,000, leading to long-term, sustainable changes across the city. The project builds on previous research undertaken in the ‘Age-Friendly Old Moat’ programme, which was integral in Greater Manchester’s successful application to the World Health Organisation in gaining ‘Age-Friendly’ status in 2017. This chapter has been published by Routledge in a peer-reviewed, edited book alongside internationally recognised researchers in urban wellbeing. The chapter was developed through two papers presented at international ageing conferences. This research forms the theoretical basis of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority ‘Ageing in Place Programme’, with the authors on the academic advisory panel, which aims to create age-friendly neighbourhoods for 151,000 older residents in the city-region. This project has also been used as a case study in public policy, including the GM Spatial Framework.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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