Designing for Aging Patterns of Use

Name: Designing for Aging Patterns of Use
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ISBN: 9780262081078

ISBN-10: 0262081075

ISBN-13: 9780262081078

Edition: 1980

Authors: Sandra C. Howell

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This book provides guidelines for the design process based upon actual tenant behaviors and uses of space in housing for older people. It sets forth new or neglected issues which should concern program planners, housing developers and designers with regard to the impact and future marketability of these special-purpose settings. A product of a five-year HEW study which won the 1979 Progressive ArchitectureAward Competition in architectural research, this book contains the behavioral evidence on which alternative design solutions ought to be decided. Designing for Agingdescribes and interprets the responses of a large national sample of residents living in apartment buildings across the…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/25/1980
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 341
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.794
Language: English