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Taking care of the old--Sustainable Aging Community

Lu, Siyu LU (2020) ASBM01 20201
Department of Architecture and Built Environment
Abstract
According to researches, China is aging faster than any other country in history. Meanwhile, China has been a country with a close-family-ties-tradition for over thousand years. However, as the family structures are getting smaller, people’s lifestyle is also changing over time. Nowadays, the word ‘a distance of a bowl of soup’ is quite popular in between all generations. It represents an ideal way of family living, that with a distance when a bowl of hot soup will not cool down over way. Then, how to create an urban space for providing aging-care design and keep private boundaries, social connections and family-care at the same time becomes a question and a challenge of this project.
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According to researches, China is aging faster than any other country in history. Meanwhile, China has been a country with a close-family-ties-tradition for over thousand years. However, as the family structures are getting smaller, people’s lifestyle is also changing over time. Nowadays, the word ‘a distance of a bowl of soup’ is quite popular in between all generations. It represents an ideal way of family living, that with a distance when a bowl of hot soup will not cool down over way. Then, how to create an urban space for providing aging-care design and keep private boundaries, social connections and family-care at the same time becomes a question and a challenge of this project.
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author
Lu, Siyu LU
supervisor
organization
course
ASBM01 20201
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Aging friendly, Co-living, Multi-generation, Sustainable urban design, Xiangmen, Suzhou ancient city, China.
language
English
id
9012421
alternative location
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1h5Pta1-45oE_MDcnfYRZ-IJkoOyb6qO9
date added to LUP
2020-06-05 09:26:30
date last changed
2020-06-05 09:26:30
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  abstract     = {{According to researches, China is aging faster than any other country in history. Meanwhile, China has been a country with a close-family-ties-tradition for over thousand years. However, as the family structures are getting smaller, people’s lifestyle is also changing over time. Nowadays, the word ‘a distance of a bowl of soup’ is quite popular in between all generations. It represents an ideal way of family living, that with a distance when a bowl of hot soup will not cool down over way. Then, how to create an urban space for providing aging-care design and keep private boundaries, social connections and family-care at the same time becomes a question and a challenge of this project.}},
  author       = {{Lu, Siyu}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Taking care of the old--Sustainable Aging Community}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}