Designing and developing inclusive urban environments

1. Designing and Developing
Inclusive Urban Environments in
The Global South
Rethinking the Informality
Contemporary Urban Issues Conference – DAKAM
Istanbul
Chiko Ncube
Doctoral Researcher at SURFACE Inclusive Design Research Centre
University of Salford, United Kingdom

2. • Demographic Transitions
• What is Inclusive Design?
• PhD Research Design
• WHO Age-friendly Cities
• Questions that begin to arise

3. A world in transition…
• Continuing population growth
• Additional 2.5 Billion people to the urban population by 2050
• Globally, more people projected to be living in urban areas

5. People over 60
Another transition…
Global Ageing
Photo taken by Ira de Reuver

6. Inclusive Design?
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7. PhD Research
What is to be done
in designing and
developing
inclusive
environments?
How can inclusive
urban
environments be
achieved in
developing
countries?
• How can the best practice in inclusive urban environments in developed
countries be used as a paradigm for developing countries?
(Age-friendly cities – Manchester)
• Analyse the major challenges experienced in less developed settings to develop
inclusive urban environments and the practical steps to overcome them

8. Functional capacity
The Determinants of
Active Ageing
Creating Urban Environments for Older
People: WHO Age-friendly Cities
What is an Age-friendly city?
• An Age-friendly city
encourages active ageing by
optimizing opportunities for
health, participation and
security in order to enhance
quality of life as people age.
• An age-friendly city adapts its
structures and services to be
accessible to and inclusive of
older people with varying
needs and capacities.

9. Eight Domains of Age-friendliness
Urban landscape and the built environment
Social environment
Global
Network of
Age-friendly
Cities 2010

10. Early life Adult life Older Age
Disability Threshold
Age
FunctionalCapacity
• The incidence of disability
increases with age
• Decline of functional
capacity
(Adapted from Kalache and Kickbusch,1997)

11. Maintaining functional capacity over the life course
Early life
Growth and
development
Adult life
Maintaining highest
Possible level of function
Older Age
Maintaining
independence and
Preventing disability
Age
FunctionalCapacity
(Adapted from Kalache and Kickbusch,1997)
Disability Threshold
Environmental
changes can lower
the disability
threshold

12. Questions that begin to arise
• How far can the Age-friendly Cities programme
be taken in less developed settings?
• What radical adjustments and innovative delivery
models need to be in place in areas of
accelerating urbanization and informal city
settlements?
• What challenges are involved in designing and
developing urban environments in the Global
South?
• What evidence based framework can be
introduced to support developing countries in the
design and development of inclusive urban
environments and contribute to policy and
practice?
Source:Thomas Reuters/CBM website