A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Friendliness of Urban Facilities for the Elderly in Taipei City and New Taipei City

Ling Yang, Hsiao-Tung Chang (), Jian Li (), Xinyue Xu, Zhi Qiu and Xiaomin Jiang
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Ling Yang: School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China
Hsiao-Tung Chang: Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Chinese Culture University, Taipei 11114, Taiwan
Jian Li: Planning & Design Headquarters, Beijing Infrastructure Investment Co., Ltd., Beijing 100101, China
Xinyue Xu: Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University, Taipei 11605, Taiwan
Zhi Qiu: Institute of Architectural Design and Theoretical Research, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Xiaomin Jiang: School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 18, 1-19

Abstract: To address the topic of building age-friendly cities that better meet the needs of the elderly in a sustainable-city-oriented manner, this paper focuses on the interaction between the needs of the elderly and urban facilities in the urban built environment in order to propose a comprehensive evaluation method regarding the friendliness of urban facilities with respect to the elderly in large urban areas. The development of the proposed method was guided by the distribution characteristics of the elderly population and combines a spatial measurement evaluation, which is based on the spatial distribution characteristics of urban facilities for the elderly, and a post-use measurement evaluation, which is based on the characteristics of use by the elderly. Taipei City and New Taipei City are then taken as examples for evaluation. From the final evaluation results of the Boston four-quadrant analysis, the areas with higher spatial and post-use metric evaluation values were defined as areas of high concern, while those with lower spatial and higher post-use metric evaluation values were defined as advantage-maintained areas. These two types of areas accounted for about 58% of the total area, and are distributed in the Taipei urban area and northeast New Taipei City. The areas with higher spatial and lower post-use metric evaluation values were defined as priority improvement areas, while those with lower spatial and post-use metric evaluation values were defined as key complement areas. These two types of area accounted for about 42%, and are mainly distributed in the northwest part of Taipei City, as well as the western and southern mountainous areas of New Taipei City. Accordingly, region-specific planning policy recommendations were provided.

Keywords: urban facilities friendliness for the elderly; comprehensive evaluation of spatial and post-use measures; demand and population distribution of the elderly (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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