Alcoa Research Centre for Stronger Communities

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Intergenerational Change in Western Australian
communities what are the issues?
Professor Daniela Stehlik
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OVERVIEW

• Setting the scene
• Imagining the future
• Meanings of place
• Seeking utopia?
• Signposts for policy and practice

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Setting the Scene

• Pre 1985
• 1985 - 1995
• 1995 - 2005
• Post 2005

Imagining the future
Who are the baby boomers? Where will they want to
live? How will they want to live? What resources
will they bring? Or not?
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Meanings of place

• Linked to identity and sense of belonging
• Enabling environments?
• Desirable/undesirable users of place
• Used as place management in policy
• Marketing tool

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Seeking utopia?

• Searching for place in quality of life -
  seachange/treechange
• Ageing in place meaning ???
• The Balingup experience
• Lessons learned

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Signposts for future policy practice

• Place management - not well understood
• Purchaser/provider split - now in its second
  generation
• Content free management
• Reflective questions ..

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Thank you
For Further Information
Alcoa Research Centre for Stronger
Communities Curtin University of
Technology Level 2, Chancellory Building (100
East wing) GPO Box U1987 Perth Western Australia
6854 Tel [phone] Fax 61 (0) 8
9266 3793 http//strongercommunities.curtin.edu.a
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