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This dissertation, Promoting Healthy Aging: Planning and Design for Open Space in Suzhou by Chenxi, Dou, 竇晨曦, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: ABSTRACT It is widely recognized that the elderly people in China would like to be aging at the at their neighbourhood level in a familiar environment. Due to the aging process, physical ability declines and correspondent mental and social status change. Therefore, how the elderly people can remain healthy aging in the nearby environment largely depends upon how compatibly the environment can meet the special needs for the elderly. Neighbourhood communal open space and the nearby open space are the most utilized places by the older people in the context of China. Therefore with the increasing aging population, it is urgent to review whether the open space planning can meet elderly citizens' needs. This study aims to make recommendations on planning, management and quality design of open space to better meet elderly people's needs. The analysis firstly reviews the open space planning framework for elderly people. Then management and quality are explored through case study of two particular neighbourhoods located in old and new districts in Suzhou city. These are evaluated through interviews with management staff, author's site visit and elderly users' perception and evaluation through a questionnaire. It is concluded that ineffective elderly people's involvement during planning process, insufficient coordination among different management institutions, lacks humane scale consideration will lead to the dissatisfaction of elderly people's use of open space. Also elderly people tend to make use of the open space they are provided with that are in proximity to home although they are physically active in reaching the destinations

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