Abstract
In recent years, conventional concepts of social reform planning for sustainable, safe and disaster-resilient communities have continuously driven the thought and practice of community planning and management; furthermore, environmental safety has become the common foundation of these visionary community models. Additionally, low birth rates and aging populations have become common social problems in numerous developed countries. This study integrated the design and planning of sustainable, disaster-resilient and intergenerational collective communities to develop factors and models of an intergenerational community. Moreover, this study constructed evaluation indicators for intergenerational communities under a safety basis, which were used as the foundation for planning and designing strategies. The system of intergenerational disaster-resilient collective community planning indicators covers 5 dimensions and 26 indicators, which focuses primarily on the establishment of community safety mechanisms and physical and mental health care for residents, including intergenerational community interactivity, provision of education and employment opportunities, provision of health and medical services, along with environmental and ecological conservation and maintenance management. By reconstructing the communication and economic model of communities as a whole, establishing community disaster management awareness and mechanisms on this basis is essential to facilitate their progress toward sustainable development. Through this framework of indicators, we aim to provide communities with a reference for future transformations in response to societal shifts.
Highlights
Agenda 21 of the United Nations (UN) proposed employing a culture of safety, disaster warnings, and contingency plans to deal with problems caused by disasters, a plan that integrates safety, disaster resilience, and sustainability
In the HFA, disaster resilience at the national and community levels was listed as the top goal of international disaster reduction; the promotion of community participation and disaster reduction, strengthening of community disaster-coping capacity, and formation of community disaster resilience were listed as the main points of safety action (UNISDR, 2005)
A literature review revealed that the planning and design factors of an intergenerational collective community mainly emphasize spatial design having to consider the mobility and differing needs of different age groups; appropriate planning through community activities is more crucial to an intergenerational community
Summary
Agenda 21 of the United Nations (UN) proposed employing a culture of safety, disaster warnings, and contingency plans to deal with problems caused by disasters, a plan that integrates safety, disaster resilience, and sustainability. In 1993, 7.1% of Taiwan’s population was aged 65 years and above, a percentage considered to indicate an aged society according to the World Health Organization (Department of Statistics, Ministry of the Interior, 2006). Later, this percentage increased from 7.86% in 1996 to 9.9% in 2006. The rise of intergenerational communities and their corresponding planning and design models are the keys to sustainability in disaster prevention, as well as for satisfying the needs of the aged population. We used the modified Delphi method (MDM) to analyze key planning and design factors for intergenerational communities with disaster resilience
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