Recognition that old age is a socially defined category challenges conventional analyses of the geography of aging. In this paper I call for a political analysis of the ways in which the built environment is implicated in the reproduction of, and challenges to, labels associated with aging populations and thus with the construction of elderly identities. The role of struggles around the built environment in changing definitions of old age is illustrated with a case study from Toronto.
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Glenda Laws (1994) studied this question.
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