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The Aging Society from the Perspective of Urban Infrastructure and Community Environment: Searching for Policy and Technological Innovation
Jiyoung Park (University at Buffalo/Seoul National University)
Christine Chang-hee Bae (the University of Washington)
Frank Wen (Southern California Association of Governments)
Abstract
This study reviews how an aging society can be connected to the urban-built environment, transportation system, infrastructure, and climate change topics from the perspective of policy and innovation in science and technology. Each topic was described with the aging society that we will encounter in the near future. Based on the expected discussions, we suggested how policy and technological innovations may interact with the new emerging society. Especially, digital transformation is expected to hyper-connect the aging society beyond physical barriers where numerous policies and innovations in science and technology shed light on the elderly population. We observe, however, that this cannot be achieved only by the government sector; rather, municipal governments and local communities, as well as private sectors, all together need to prepare for the new society of the aging population. Furthermore, an ideal approach is to accommodate multidisciplinary studies that can address the policy and technological innovations simultaneously and collectively. By doing so, we can minimize the negative impacts when an aging society approaches.
- keywords
- Aging society, built environment, community impacts, inter-collaboration between public and private sectors
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