AARP URGES UNIVERSAL DESIGN AND INCLUSIVE HOMES
Matthew Kaplan, Ph.D., is professor of Intergenerational Programs and Aging in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education at Pennsylvania State University.
He
co-authored, with Irv Katz, a longtime leader of nonprofits on a national
scale, “Intergenerational Community Planning”—a deep dive research paper on
aging trends and placemaking for the American Planning Association.
“A lot of
planning is top to bottom. It doesn’t get at creativity and imagination,”
Kaplan said of planning that becomes more focused on zoning code and
regulations than how to create great places that are culturally rich.
“Too many
suburban and even some urban places are designed in a way that makes it hard
for people to walk around and meet each other on the street.
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