TY - JOUR
T1 - Building Back Better
T2 - Do Post-Earthquake Neighborhoods Promote Active Aging? A Long-Term Audit Analysis in Christchurch, New Zealand
AU - Curl, Angela
AU - Annear, Michael
AU - Keeling, Sally
AU - Hackett, Georgina
N1 - Funding Information:
The Canterbury Education and Research Trust for the Health of Older Persons and the University of Canterbury provided funding for fieldwork and data analysis associated with this project. The authors acknowledge the support of Briar Gaynor who provided valuable assistance for the street audits in this study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The design of urban environments often influences neighborhood physical activity and is crucial to supporting the health and mobility of aging urban populations. However, changes to urban infrastructure take time to implement and are rarely evaluated over long periods. In this study, we examined the long-term outcomes of rapid urban change and rebuilding following a sequence of devastating earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand. The study drew on a novel mixed-methods approach, including on-site environmental audits, desktop spatial analyses, and subjective auditor observations, to track support for active aging over a decade of post-disaster rebuilding in 10 aging neighborhoods.
AB - The design of urban environments often influences neighborhood physical activity and is crucial to supporting the health and mobility of aging urban populations. However, changes to urban infrastructure take time to implement and are rarely evaluated over long periods. In this study, we examined the long-term outcomes of rapid urban change and rebuilding following a sequence of devastating earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand. The study drew on a novel mixed-methods approach, including on-site environmental audits, desktop spatial analyses, and subjective auditor observations, to track support for active aging over a decade of post-disaster rebuilding in 10 aging neighborhoods.
KW - Active aging
KW - earthquake disaster
KW - environmental audit
KW - longitudinal
KW - rebuild
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U2 - 10.1080/26892618.2022.2071373
DO - 10.1080/26892618.2022.2071373
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85130202330
SN - 2689-2618
VL - 37
SP - 255
EP - 276
JO - Journal of Aging and Environment
JF - Journal of Aging and Environment
IS - 3
ER -
