1. Designing age friendly streetscapes: A toolkit for Victoria
Carmel Boyce, MVCC

2. Our starting point
A number of large shopping centres on its borders (Highpoint, Essendon Fields) which have impacted the vitality and viability of many of the smaller strip shopping areas
Exploring methodologies for developing more resilient, robust and vital strip shopping centres.
From a re-localising context, in building an increasingly sustainable world for future generations, protecting local and strip shopping centres as walkable and vibrant places which support community and cultural life

3. Building our Understanding
The mutual interdependencies of older people and people with limited mobility and local shopping precincts.
many are entirely reliant on local shops to meet daily needs including social connection
Provide most regular mid day mid week trade to small businesses
Ensure local shopping strips are better positioned to meet needs:
physically (universally accessible, age and dementia friendly)
the nature of the mutual interdependence elements of business and how to perform these well
Tell the story about Jan’s aunt

5. Our data 16747 people over 65 years of age
6027 disabled parking permit holders
1647+ survey respondents
Most older women, most years old
All with some form of mobility limitation
Although they want to do all sorts of things including participation in community life like everyone else, all of them need to shop
Mostly identified local shopping as a desire and a significant challenge

6. Predictions for dementia
Essendon
Niddrie
Moonee Valley
2013 Prevalence
834
859
1738
2050 Prediction
2080
2797
4871
% Change 2013 to 2050
150%
226%
180%

12. Our Key Questions What are the built environment elements that
support people walk into a shopping centre most days?
What would a local ‘age, mobility and dementia friendly’ shopping precinct look like ?
How far does it extend into the surrounding residential areas?
What are the limits and barriers to success of an aged friendly built precinct?

13. Gathering data on the problems
Survey data as part of streetscape reconstruction program from urban designers on street
Survey information accessible parking respondents)
Focus group discussions with accessible parking
Walkshops (onstreet) for design for Union Rd shopping centre and specifically for this project

15. What are the solutions?

18. What does the toolkit contain?

19. We will be road testing it
If you are interested in being involved contact me