High streets, ageing and well-being

Brunelli, Luca; Smith, Harry; Woolrych, Ryan

High streets, ageing and well-being

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Brunelli, Luca, Smith, Harry and Woolrych, Ryan (2025) High streets, ageing and well-being. Journal of Urban Design, 30 (2). pp. 223-253. ISSN 1357-4809
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Creators/Authors:

Brunelli, Luca, Smith, Harry and Woolrych, Ryan

Abstract:

Despite their perceived decline, local high streets in the UK remain valuable central and well-connected places that can foster ageing in place, yet their potential to sustain well-being in old age has been overlooked. Using qualitative methods, the paper explores what features of local high streets support older people’s well-being in three local town centres in Edinburgh, Scotland. The findings show there are three main domains of local high streets’ public realm that enable older adults’ well-being, namely the streetscape, the spatial organization and accessibility of amenities and services, and the provision of housing that can foster town centre living.

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13574809.2024.2302436?src=exp-la

Uncontrolled Keywords:

high streets, public realm, ageing, older people, well-being, health

School/Academic Area:

Mackintosh School of Architecture

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3 January 2024

Accepted

18 January 2024

Published Online

2025

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Published

Funders:

James Watt Scholarship

Identification Number:

10.1080/13574809.2024.2302436

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© 2024 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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9169

Date Deposited:

19 Jan 2024 12:31

Last Modified:

06 Mar 2026 11:42

Deposited By:

Luca Brunelli

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