Comments on: Bring On The Life Care For Successful Aging http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/05/25/bring-on-the-life-care-for-successful-aging/ Efficiency is the straightest path to hell.* Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:43:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Sabina Pade http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/05/25/bring-on-the-life-care-for-successful-aging/#comment-2308 Tue, 27 May 2008 15:33:25 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/05/25/bring-on-the-life-care-for-successful-aging/#comment-2308 Would love to see more widespread present-day application in Seattle of Mirabella's city block-filling 12-storey massing! The ubiquitous architectural backdrop to the great urban avenues of early 20th-century Europe and North America, when thoughtfully executed, it can function admirably well. Would love to see more widespread present-day application in Seattle of Mirabella’s city block-filling 12-storey massing!

The ubiquitous architectural backdrop to the great urban avenues of early 20th-century Europe and North America, when thoughtfully executed, it can function admirably well.

]]> by: LisaB http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/05/25/bring-on-the-life-care-for-successful-aging/#comment-2277 Mon, 26 May 2008 17:39:58 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/05/25/bring-on-the-life-care-for-successful-aging/#comment-2277 This is pretty fabulous. Living in the West End of Vancouver - there's a huge province run seniors housing complex and it was quite nice seeing seniors out and about in their walkers and wheelchairs - meeting up with friends or going down the street to the produce market/park/coffee shop. It must have been great for them - many of whom couldn't drive. I contrast that with the seniors facility I saw in Madison, WI out in the middle of nowhere (literally next to a cornfield) where they had to have organized shuttle buses take them to the mall. Or they could brave crossing the 6 lane busy street and walk for 20 min to a target. Which would you pick? Building seniors housing in dense, walkable neighbourhoods full of amenities is clearly the better idea. This is pretty fabulous. Living in the West End of Vancouver - there’s a huge province run seniors housing complex and it was quite nice seeing seniors out and about in their walkers and wheelchairs - meeting up with friends or going down the street to the produce market/park/coffee shop. It must have been great for them - many of whom couldn’t drive.

I contrast that with the seniors facility I saw in Madison, WI out in the middle of nowhere (literally next to a cornfield) where they had to have organized shuttle buses take them to the mall. Or they could brave crossing the 6 lane busy street and walk for 20 min to a target. Which would you pick?

Building seniors housing in dense, walkable neighbourhoods full of amenities is clearly the better idea.

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