Deane Simpson

Young-Old

Urban Utopias of an Aging Society

Young-Old examines contemporary architectural and urban mutations that have emerged as a consequence of one of the key demographic transformations of our time: population aging. Distinguishing between different phases of old age, it identifies the group known as the “Young-Old” as a remarkable petri dish for experimental forms of subjectivity, collectivity, and environment. In investigating this field of latent urban and architectural novelty, Young-Old asserts both the escapist and emancipatory dimensions of these practices.

Winner of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2015
Winner of the National Urban Design Book Award 2016

“this book is an important piece of research on architecture and urban design for the ageing welfare society.”
– Nordic Journal of Architecture

 

Author(s): Deane Simpson
Design: Studio Joost Grootens

17 × 24 cm, 6 ¾ × 9 ½ in
576 pages, 553 illustrations
hardback
2015, 978-3-03778-350-4, English
32,00 €
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Studio Joost Grootens: Young-Old from Studio Joost Grootens on Vimeo.

Deane Alan Simpson

Deane Simpson is an architect teaching at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen where he is professor of architecture, urbanism and urban planning; and head of the master program Urbanism and Societal Change. He is author of Young-Old (2015), and coeditor of The City Between Freedom and Security (2017), Forming Welfare (2017) and Atlas of the Copenhagens (2018).

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