Jack and Nancy Carman, co-authors of Re-creating Neighborhoods for Successful Aging talk about aging in place and the current issues for seniors in the housing market.

Environments for Aging 09, March 29 - 31, 2009. Boston, MA.

Mainstreet National Conference, 15 -18 March 2009. Fremantle, Western Australia.

The conference theme, Rediscovering the Heart, invites speakers and
attendees to explore why mainstreets are again becoming the heart and
soul of city and town centres across Australia. This rediscovery is
having a major influence on the direction our city and town centres are
heading in and whether they are responding positively to change and
embracing future trends.

 ISA International Housing Conference, 1 - 4 September 2009. Glasgow

The key theme of the conference is to engage with the current turbulence in the housing finance credit markets and ask what this means for housing outcomes, opportunities and policy-making at different spatial scales (the neighbourhood, city, nation and different international regions), both now and in the future. What does this mean for the role of housing within modern capitalist economies and

Maison a Bordeaux is Laureate Rem Koolhaas' Pritzker Prize winning home design.

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The 2009 NAHB Building for Boomers & Beyond: 50+ Housing Symposium™ is the premier event for 50+ housing professionals—you can’t afford to miss it!

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The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and
the AARP will host a briefing on Universal Design and the 50+ housing
market. The briefing will feature the four national winners of the 2008
Livable Communities Awards. The awards honor builders, developers and
remodelers that create attractive, well-designed homes and communities that
are comfortable, safe and accessible for people of all ages and abilities.

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BAU 2009 will be featuring for the second time a special exhibition on the subject of lifts and escalators. Architects and planners are interested in concepts on how lifts and escalators can be integrated into large building complexes, in particular for renovation and modernisation projects.

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