TY - JOUR
T1 - The Use of a Public Space in a Public Housing Complex by Senior Citizens
T2 - A Qualitative Study
AU - Matsumoto, Hiroshige
AU - Kageyama, Masako
AU - Yamamoto-Mitani, Noriko
AU - Nagata, Satoko
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors express thanks to all the users and staff of the CGS, the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Tokyo, the Urban Renaissance Agency, and Ryo Nishikawa as introducers and supporters of the study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Recently, many community gathering spaces (CGSs) have been built as platforms for senior citizens to socialize. This study constitutes an ethnographic examination of how senior citizens use a CGS in a public housing complex in Japan. The results depicted six characteristic styles in which senior citizens used the CGS: visiting a park, attending a school, using a library, using a meeting room, shopping for commodities, and participating in events. Frequency of CGS use and group cohesion were two properties that distinguished among the six styles. Moreover, environmental features of the CGS enabled senior citizens with various physical and social conditions to use the CGS.
AB - Recently, many community gathering spaces (CGSs) have been built as platforms for senior citizens to socialize. This study constitutes an ethnographic examination of how senior citizens use a CGS in a public housing complex in Japan. The results depicted six characteristic styles in which senior citizens used the CGS: visiting a park, attending a school, using a library, using a meeting room, shopping for commodities, and participating in events. Frequency of CGS use and group cohesion were two properties that distinguished among the six styles. Moreover, environmental features of the CGS enabled senior citizens with various physical and social conditions to use the CGS.
KW - Ethnography
KW - housing complex
KW - public space
KW - social relationship
KW - third place
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U2 - 10.1080/26892618.2020.1802803
DO - 10.1080/26892618.2020.1802803
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85101292480
SN - 2689-2618
VL - 35
SP - 107
EP - 124
JO - Journal of Aging and Environment
JF - Journal of Aging and Environment
IS - 2
ER -