IN-PERSON: Livable Cities – New York

Abstract

Create an intergenerational space for different generations’ interaction is essential in contemporary society. Over the years, many researchers have made significant advances and contributions in this field. Researchers have made significant progress and contributions in the field of intergenerational spaces, focusing on projects such as intergenerational programs in nursing homes, senior centres, educational centres, and kindergartens. However, most of these studies have been centred around artificially creating indoor environments for intergenerational interaction, rather than examining the everyday use of public spaces. As the systemic analysis of the literature, contemporary focuses concerning the proper intergenerational outdoor public space environmental design for children and older people. The author uses visualization bibliometric networks to trace the research focus on intergenerational spaces over the years, explaining the importance of public spaces, such as urban squares, becoming intergenerational contact zones. The author proposes a new approach, the time-geography approach, which is more suitable for studying the experiences of different generations using outdoor public spaces and the outdoor environmental context. There will also use visualization bibliometric networks to display the focus areas from the previous time-geography relative research. Aims to emphasize the research gap between the two terms “intergenerational space” and “time-geography”. And through the uses and features of the time-geography identified its contributions of methodological perspectives on the development of an approach to intergenerational outdoor public space environment (use the urban square as a sample).