Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-143).

Introduction : Housing as a social context for aging / Stephen Luoni -- A gerontological framework for new senior living models / Alexis Denton -- Shared space and the shared economy / Thomas Fisher -- Place in aging: a brief note on Michael Haneke's Amour / Daniel Friedman -- Rethinking aging and housing -- Why aging? Why so disruptive? -- City + culture -- Introducing third place fabrics : Hyper-porch ; Patio mat ; Garage gallery -- Retrofitting existing fabric.

"Third place ecologies reworks components of the familiar single-family home to promote new levels of connectivity in neighborhoods once resistant to sharing. Individual porches are extended in order to serve multiple units as hyper-porches, garage galleries hydridize car parking to become neighborhood work and maker spaces, and patio mats are used as live-work venues all to revitalize neighborhoods through return of the informal." - back cover.