Urbani izziv Volume 34, No. 1, June 2023
: 67-78
(Articles)
UDK: 711.4:364.4-053.9:551.588.7
doi: 10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2023-34-01-01
Author
Rümeysa Bayar
Erzurum Technical University, Engineering and Architecture Faculty, Department of Architecture, Erzurum, Turkey
rumeysa.bayar@erzurum.edu.tr
Aysun Aygün Oğur
Pamukkale University, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Denizli, Turkey
aaygun@pau.edu.tr
Title
Integrating climate change responses
into age-friendly city domains: A theoretical review
Abstract
This study focuses on older adults, who are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change due to their health,
physical, and socioeconomic conditions. On the one
hand, climate change has grown into the most challenging issue on the international agenda for the twenty-first
century due to its adverse impacts. On the other hand,
the global population has been ageing rapidly, especially
in urban areas. The link between these two major concerns is unclear in theory and practice; hence, easy-touse universal guidelines offering possible solutions for
governments, institutions, and communities for irremediable impacts are an urgent necessity. Based on this imperative, this article presents climate change–responsive
age-friendly city domains through a critical literature review. Seven domains are prioritized at various scales to
represent the core planning areas of age-friendliness and
climate-change resilience in urban areas: environmental
safety, information and participation, health and social
services on the city scale, surroundings and transportation
on the neighbourhood scale, outdoor spaces and thermal
comfort, and housing on the housing cluster scale. The
interaction between these two concerns in the framework
provided by this study contributes to raising awareness,
building actions, and directing policies from a global
perspective.
Key Words
climate change, age-friendly city, population ageing, sustainability, urban policy