Creating therapeutic spaces for the public: elderly exercisers as leaders in urban China
Creating therapeutic spaces for the public: elderly exercisers as leaders in urban China
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DOI：
10.1080/02723638.2021.1979284
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发表时间：
2021-09
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影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Peiling Zhou;S. Grady;M. Rosenberg
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作者：
Peiling Zhou;S. Grady;M. Rosenberg
摘要：考虑“老年友好”和“健康”城市的设计和建设以适应世界不断变化的人口结构变得越来越重要。我们提出了一个概念框架，通过该框架将城市开放空间转变为“治疗性公共空间”。经过在中国两个城市的公园进行了八个月的实地考察，我们发现身体和社会元素的组合以及老年人的表演促进了老年人的集体认同、追求健康的新常态和反过来，这也为城市开放空间中的不同参与者提供了健康意识。这项研究通过绘制通过不同社会群体合作构建的治疗性公共空间，有助于更好地理解老年人在“老年友好”和“健康”城市的概念化中的作用。
ABSTRACT It is becoming increasingly crucial to consider the design and construction of ‘age-friendly” and “healthy” cities to accommodate the world’s changing demographic. We propose a conceptual framework through which urban open spaces are transformed into “therapeutic public spaces”. Following eight months of fieldwork in public parks in two Chinese cities, we found that the assemblage of physical and social elements, as well as elderly people’s performances, facilitated a collective identity among elderly people, a new norm of pursuing health, and a reciprocal relationship between disparate participants. This, in turn, delivers the health sense to various participants in urban open spaces. This study contributes to a relational conceptualization of therapeutic landscapes and public spaces by blueprinting a therapeutic public space that is constructed through the collaboration of various social groups. This study also contributes to a greater understanding of elderly people’s role in the conceptualization of “age-friendly” and “healthy” cities.