Aging in Community: Strategies for Inclusive Urban Spaces

Start Date

07/15/2025

End Date

07/17/2025

Description

Often, planners and designers are tasked with designing urban spaces for the benefit of all abilities. And, often, we pull out the Federal, State and local ADA Guidelines and design away. For most of our design careers, designing per ADA code was the target. But when we do, we miss entire populations of our community or we miss entire generations of users. As designers, we need to step to the side of ADA and take a broader look at inclusive planning and universal design. We have been designing homes to allow us to “age in place” but we must plan our cities to allow us to live and age in place.

Location

Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

Distance Learning

Course Equivalency

Subjects

Urban Planning & Design

Health, Safety and Welfare

Yes

Hours

1.0

Learning Outcomes

1. Attendees will understand the importance and magnitude of disabilities in our society.
2. Attendees will realize the importance of each design element and how each impacts different abilities differently.
3. Attendees will learn the importance of designing for entire populations and not just for ADA.

Instructors

Gary Warner

Course Codes

Provider

FL|ASLA

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