Review: Housing for the Elderly: Planning and Policy Formulation in Western Europe and North America, Housing Needs and the Elderly, Progress in Urban Geography, Geography and the Urban Environment, Volume 5: Progress in Research and Applications, Behavioral Problems in Geography Revisited, Urban Geomorphology in Drylands, Mathematical Programming Methods for Geographers and Planners, Residential Location Determinants of the Older Population, Garden Cities for America: The Radburn Experience, the Impact of Recession: On Industry, Employment and the Regions, 1976–1981, Sociology, Politics and Cities. The City: Patterns of Domination and Conflict, the Structure of Nineteenth Century Cities

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. 1553-1566
Author(s):  
A Norton ◽  
R Harris ◽  
A N Spector ◽  
M G Anderson ◽  
M L Senior ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Garden Cities ◽  
Housing For The Elderly ◽  
Location Determinants ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

scholarly journals The Effects of Gentrification on the Elderly: A Case Study in the City of Cáceres

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Lidia Domínguez-Parraga
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

This study aims to analyze the consequences of the gentrification process as a result of tourism on the elderly inhabitants. Firstly, the concept of gentrification is reviewed, a process that is no longer exclusive to large cities but has spread to smaller and lesser-known municipalities. A clear example of this type of new tourist destination is the city of Cáceres, a World Heritage medium-sized city where tourism is the basis of its economy. The research considers gentrification in medium-sized cities and its effect on active aging. Based on a qualitative methodological approach, a total of 32 in-depth interviews were conducted and analyzed to compare two neighborhoods—one gentrified and one not. The results show a remarkable disparity in the residents’ perceptions of their environment and their city. The findings suggest adverse effects on the quality of aging due to the gentrification process, such as family dependency, social-space disconnection, and a generally pessimistic image of the neighborhood. Consequently, the impact of tourism negatively affects the gentrified neighborhood inhabitants’ psychological, social, and emotional well-being.

scholarly journals Guests’ assessment of hotel facilities and services: Zadar case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-250
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Parzych ◽  
Jadranka Brkić-Vejmelka
Keyword(s):  
City Centre ◽  
Location Factors ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Railway Station ◽  
Comfort Evaluation ◽  
Location Determinants ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract The availability of hotel facilities and services and their quality are one of the most important factor in selection of a tourist destination. The aim of the article was to analyse the impact of hotel location factors, prices of hotel services and detailed assessments of hotel services provided by the hotel on the overall rating of the hotel. As a case study, Zadar – a city located in the northern part of the Dalmatian coast of Croatia – was used to analyse the problem. The location determinants of hotels and their equipment were assessed in relation to the price of accommodation and tourists’ evaluation of the basic components of hotel services. The analysis used data obtained from the Booking.com website for accommodation prices, including selected days of the high and low season, data on the number of opinions about the object and the rating of the object by guests in terms of the overall opinion about the object, its location conditions, the standard of services rendered, cleanliness, comfort, evaluation of staff work, access to Wi-Fi network and assessment of services rendered in relation to the price of the service. The obtained results indicate hotel location, especially its distance from the city centre, railway station and airport and evaluation of chosen elements of customers’ hotel evaluation are most significant determinants of choosing accommodation for tourists.

Book Reviews: The Great Train Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat, Automobility: Social Change and the American South, 1909–1939, Transport Lessons from the Fuel Tax Protests of 2000, Transport and Society Series, Suburbanizing the Masses: Public Transport and Urban Development in Historical Perspective, the City and the Railway in Europe, Spår i vägen: Teknikval, politik & spårvägstrafik i Stockholm 1920–2002, Stockholm Papers in the History and Philosophy of Technology TRITA-HOT 2044, Government Birds: Air Transport and the State in Western Europe, the Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, Die Semmeringbahn. Der Bau der ersten Hochgebirgsbahn der Welt, Bibliographie der österreichischen Eisenbahnliteratur von den Anfängen bis 1918, the Windermere Ferry: History, Boats, Ferrymen and Passengers, Daily Life in the Age of Sail, Travel in the Byzantine World: Papers from the Thirty-Fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000, Vauxhall Motors and the Luton Economy, 1900–2002, Three Men in a Hupp: Around the World by Automobile, 1910–1912

2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-159
Author(s):  
Di Drummond ◽  
Albert Churella ◽  
Francis Desiderio ◽  
John Hibbs ◽  
Colin Chant ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
American South ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Fuel Tax ◽  
The American South ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
University Education ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Devotional Practices ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Jerusalem was the object of intense study and devotion throughout the Middle Ages. This book illuminates ways in which the city was represented by Christians in Western Europe, from the 600s the 1500s. Focusing on maps in illuminated manuscripts and early printed books, it also considers views and architectural replicas, and treats depictions of the Temple and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre alongside those of Jerusalem as a whole. The chapters draw on new research and a range of disciplinary perspectives to show how such depictions responded to developments in the West, as well as to the shifting political circumstances of Jerusalem and its wider region. One central theme is the relationship between text, image and manuscript context, including discussion of images as scriptural exegesis and the place of schematic diagrams and plans in the presentation of knowledge. Another is the impact of trends in learning, such as the reception of Jewish scholarship, the move from monastic to university education, and the creation of yet wider audiences through mendicant preaching and the development of printing. The book also examines the role of changing liturgical and devotional practices, including imagined pilgrimage and the mapping of Jerusalem onto European cities and local landscapes. Finally, it seeks to elucidate how two- and three-dimensional representations of the city both resulted from and prompted processes of mental visualization. In this way, the book is conceived as a contribution to manuscript studies, the history of cartography, visual studies and the history of ideas.

scholarly journals COVID-19 scenarios for comparing the effectiveness of age-specific vaccination regimes, exemplified for the city of Aschaffenburg (Germany)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Krebs ◽  
Holger von Jouanne-Diedrich ◽  
Michael J Moeckel
Keyword(s):  
Local Population ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Strong Increase ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Purpose of this report: The purpose of this rapid communication is to illustrate the effectiveness of different vaccination regimes for controlling the number of severe and critical COVID-19 cases in the city of Aschaffenburg, Germany. Our results show that, despite numerous vaccinations in the past, further vaccinations are necessary to immunize the population and to keep the number of severe and critical cases low in the coming months. Considering that not all people can or want to receive vaccination, we compare different age-specific vaccination approaches. Applied Methods: We use the agent-based epidemiological simulator Covasim for discussing the impact of different vaccination strategies. We calibrate it to reproduce the historical course of the COVID-19 pandemic in the city of Aschaffenburg, Germany; for this, we model and integrate numerous public health interventions imposed on the local population. As for some of the political actions rigorous quantification is currently not available, we fit those unknown (free) model parameters to published data on the measured epidemiological dynamics. Then we calculate the state of immunization of the population, gained through infections and vaccinations, at any time in the past, including models for time-dependent immunity decay that have been made available in Covasim. Finally, we define and compare scenar-ios of different vaccination regimes, especially with regard to vaccinating adolescents and providing booster vaccinations to the elderly. Key message: Without further vaccinations, we expect a strong increase in severe and critical cases. In order to restrict their growth our simulations suggest that in all considered cases vaccinations of unvaccinated people is more effective than booster vaccinations for already fully vaccinated people. This applies even to vaccinations of young people who are not themselves at high risk of developing severe or critical illness. We attribute this observation to the fact that immunization of adolescents indirectly protects vulnerable age groups by preventing the spread of the virus more ef-fectively than further immunizing other age groups. This indicates that with the pandemic ongoing, strategies focussed on minimizing individual health risks by vaccinations may no longer coincide with those needed to minimize the num-ber of severe and critical cases.

scholarly journals Excess Risk of Mortality Due to Heatwaves in Dezful city, Southwest of Iran

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamidreza Aghababaeian ◽  
Abbas Ostadtaghizadeh ◽  
Ali Ardalan ◽  
Ali Asgary ◽  
Mehry Akbary ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Waves ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Early Warning Systems ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Hot Climate ◽  
Risk Of Mortality ◽  
Southwest Of Iran ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Abstract Background: Recent studies show that heatwaves pose risks to human health. Iran is exposed to heatwaves, but the evidence for the health impact of heatwaves is scarce. We aimed to evaluate the impact of heatwaves on daily deaths from non-accidental, cardiovascular, and respiratory in the city of Dezful in Iran from 2013 to 2019.Method: We collected daily ambient temperature and mortality and defined two types of heatwaves by combining daily temperature ³90thin each month of the study period or since 30 years with duration ³2 and 3 days. We used a distributed lag non-linear model to investigate the association between each type of heatwave definition and deaths from non-accidental, cardiovascular, and respiratory with lags up to 13 days.Results: Heat waves of both definitions were associated with a higher risk of non-accidental mortality. The association between heat waves and mortality appeared acutely and lasted for 3 and 4 days. The main effect and added effect are more pronounced among male and older adults than their counterparts. We found no evidence of an association of cardiovascular and respiratory deaths with heat waves.Conclusion: Dezful is a city with a hot climate. However, the results showed that heatwaves could have detrimental effects on health, even in populations accustomed to the extreme heat. Therefore, early warning systems which monitor heat waves should provide the necessary warnings to all exposed groups, especially the elderly and the male groups.

Power in the metropolis: the impact of economic and demographic growth on the Antwerp City Council (1400–1550)

Urban History ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-609
Author(s):  
Janna Everaert
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
City Council ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
City Councils ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gateway Cities ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Commercial Expansion

AbstractCurrent historiography endorses a narrative that the political elite of pre-industrial gateway cities became more ‘open’ in the wake of efflorescence and that their city councils became populated with merchants. Yet, according to the existing literature, Antwerp challenges this narrative, as the influx of merchants was very limited during late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries when Antwerp transformed from a medium-sized Brabantine city into the leading economic centre in western Europe. Moreover, scholars disagree on whether the economic expansion had any impact at all on the composition and profile of Antwerp's political elite. By analysing the social composition of the city council and how this evolved from the beginning of Antwerp's commercial expansion around 1400 until its apogee around 1550, I revisit the question whether Antwerp constitutes an exception to the established pattern of elite formation in gateway cities and, if so, why.

The Impact of Welfare Facilities on Happiness of the Elderly: Evidence from Seoul, Korea

2019 ◽  
pp. 0739456X1987411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danya Kim ◽  
Jangik Jin
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Time Specific ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Positive Effect

Across the world, there are growing concerns about how to care for an increasingly large elderly population. We explore how elderly welfare facilities influence seniors’ subjective well-being, focusing on the city of Seoul, Korea, using the 2005–2015 Seoul Survey data. Through pooled cross-sectional data analysis with time-specific and location-specific fixed-effects, we estimate the effect of the number of local welfare facilities on elderly subjective well-being. Our results show that elderly welfare facilities have a positive effect on elderly subjective well-being after controlling for endogeneity, but these facilities are more important for the more aged elderly and lower income elderly.

scholarly journals Naturalness in the City: Demographic Groups’ Differences in Preference for Deciduous Landscape

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7615
Author(s):  
Rong Fan ◽  
Junxi Fan ◽  
Jiayu Song ◽  
Kaiyuan Li ◽  
Wenli Ji
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Landscape Conservation ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Theoretical Support ◽  
Fallen Leaves ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

In the past few years, deciduous landscape conservation has become a trend in China; however, the theoretical support is still limited, and the impact of demographic characteristics on people’s attitude toward deciduous landscape still needs to be explained. This study aimed at exploring the differences among demographic groups through Likert scale questionnaires of 981 respondents. The results show that of all characteristics, only age has a significant influence on deciduous landscape preference. However, there is a paradox for elderly people: they have the highest preference for deciduous landscape and the lowest intention to keep deciduous landscape in their lives at the same time. Moreover, the elderly tend to care about the underlying surface of deciduous landscape while the reliable predictor for other age groups is the color of fallen leaves. These findings can be useful for practical applications, which might guide future development of deciduous landscape planning and maintenance.

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