Week 2 Chapter 1.2 Usage of the Common Spaces

 Due to the ageing population, their physical mental are limited and health status are gradually become worst, so that they could only go to nearby common space and build up their social interaction with friends, therefore a common space has play an important role for elderly. For an analogy, for those elder people living in urban or suburbs will need a green common space to relax themselves, like a park or garden. The usage of common space for elderly are void decks, market, elderly corner, community centre, and etc…..They usually go to these places during their free time.. Elderly can have different kind of activities to spend their time. For examples, elder people may having a meeting with their friends, playing chess, buying something, learning talent, reading newspaper, and etc….. There are several ways to find out the usage of common space for elderly, through internet searching and survey.

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                                                               Figure 1  Yishun neighbourhood market

                                                               Figure 2 Yishun Avenue 6 old version of the void decks

                                                                                     Figure 3 Yishun Avenue 6 new version of the void decks

                                                               Figure 4 Yishun Nee Soon Park

                                                                                              Figure 5 Yishun Nee Soon Park walkpath