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Age-Friendly Engineering for the Built Environment

  • 1st Edition - August 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: David S.-K. Ting, Jacqueline A. Stagner
  • Language: English

Age-Friendly Engineering for the Built Environment emphasizes the integration of human-centric planning and design approaches with innovative technologies to enhance accessib… Read more

Description

Age-Friendly Engineering for the Built Environment emphasizes the integration of human-centric planning and design approaches with innovative technologies to enhance accessibility, safety, and quality of life for an aging population as they navigate daily activities, interact with their surroundings, and maintain independence within evolving urban landscapes.

This well-thought-out research reference book advocates for inclusive, efficient, and resilient localities by exploring the pivotal role of engineers in shaping them, while addressing the various engineering challenges that must be overcome to realize these goals. It considers a broad range of topics specific to the built environment and its dwellers—from well-lit walkways, accessible buildings, pace-sensitive traffic lighting, easily navigable transportation infrastructure and services, aging-in-place housing, and multigeneration cultural facilities to wearable devices and in-home, AI-powered sensors and smart assistive equipment to optimize health and safety—aptly spanning both macro and micro scales. Details on the latest advancements, actionable insights from case studies, and application examples strengthen the coverage and amplify its value for advanced students, researchers, practitioners, and other technical stakeholders involved in the development of future-ready cities.

Key features

  • Consolidates a state-of-the art discourse on aging demographics from an engineering standpoint to create an age-friendly built environment
  • Presents multifront engineering approaches to overcome the challenges of older adults and to better promote broader environmental and social sustainability goals
  • Expounds on a holistic range of engineering solutions, from microsensors to age-friendly smart communities

Readership

Primary: Postgraduate students, researchers, and academics in civil and architectural engineering; urban planning, growth development, and regeneration; sustainable built environments’ design, operations, and management; transportation and infrastructure engineering.
Secondary: Practitioners in the fields marked as primary; technology developers; municipal engineers, city planners, and governmental bodies engaged in decisions to shape urban development and infrastructure projects aimed at enhancing the quality of life for residents and promoting sustainable growth. Tangentially, occupational therapists, gerontologists, and healthcare providers could find this book of interest too.

Table of contents

1. Age-friendly engineering

2. Intersections of engineering and public health for age-friendly cities in Canada: A systematic review

3. Real-time health monitoring in an age-friendly built environment through the Internet of Things

4. Recent progress in artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things for healthcare systems

5. Accessible by design: Leveraging artificial intelligence to address noncommunicable diseases in aging populations

6. Innovation Conflict Theory: Rethinking age-friendly design and policy

7. Walking, neighborhood ties, and aging in place: A qualitative study from Southwestern Ontario

8. Developing a design tool for age-friendly gated communities in China: Integrating knowledge bases to improve lived experiences for older women

9. Age-friendly spatial design

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

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David S.-K. Ting

David S.-K. Ting is the founder of the Turbulence and Energy Laboratory at the University of Windsor, through which he supervises students primarily on energy and thermofluids. He is a prolific author/editor and a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta (APPEGA); Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO); the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE); the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); the Engineering Society for Advancing Mobility Land Sea Air and Space (SAE). He has edited several books for Elsevier, the most recent ones especially focused on sustainable engineering and development practices.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Allinterest Research Institute, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada

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Jacqueline A. Stagner

Jacqueline A. Stagner is the Undergraduate Programs Coordinator in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Windsor. She is an adjunct graduate faculty member in the Department of Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering and co-advises students in the areas of sustainability and renewable energy, in the Turbulence & Energy Laboratory. She is a professional engineer with a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering and prior to joining the University of Windsor, she worked as a release engineer in the automotive industry. She has disseminated numerous journal articles focused on sustainability and the built environment, in addition to coediting twenty volumes.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Programs Coordinator, Dept. of Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering (MAME), Faculty of Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada