This paper was delivered at the annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2020. Thanks to session chairs Anna Andrzejewski and Willa Granger for insightful comments, incorporated here, as well as to Laura O’Brien who helped with this research in summer 2019. Fiona Kenney and Cigdem Talu helped to revise it for publication. Basem Eid Mohamed and Pieter Sijpkes helped behind the scenes. Bio-medical ethicists Phoebe Friesen and Monique Lanoix also provided helpful remarks. Adams, Chivers, and Lanoix met as co-investigators in the SSHRC-funded project, “Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices,” PI Pat Armstrong, York University, and have co-published three journal articles.
Peter J. Whitehouse, “Long-Term Care for the Future: Just What is Real Anyway?” in Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care, eds. Sally Chivers and Ulla Kriebernegg (London: Transcript Verlag, 2017), 107.
Witold Rybczynski, “Seaside Revisited,” Slate, February 28, 2007, ➝.
Average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Langley currently is about 1,200 Canadian dollars; long-term care costs in British Columbia top out at about C$2,200.
“Furuset Hageby,” 3RW Arkitekter, 2018, ➝. Thanks to Erika Brandl Mouton at 3RW.
“Sunnhetsgrenden Vardheim,” 3RW Arkitekter, ➝.
“68% of the world population projected to live in urban areas by 2050, says UN,” United Nations, May 16, 2018, ➝.
One example is Annmarie Adams et al., “Kids in the atrium: Comparing architectural intentions and children's experiences in a pediatric hospital lobby,” Social Science & Medicine 70, no. 5 (2010): 658–667.
We are grateful to Phoebe Friesen for this insight.
Pieter Sijpkes, email to Annmarie Adams, February 25, 2020.
Phoebe Friesen, email to Annmarie Adams, March 2, 2020.
Translated by Adams with Martin Bressani’s approval, from Martin Bressani and Marc Grignon, “Une protection spéciale du ciel: le décor de l'église de Saint-Joachim et les tribulations de l'Église catholique québécoise au début du XIXe siècle,” Journal of Canadian Art History 29 (2008): 8–49.
Sijpkes’s personal experience confirms this. Describing a visit to Hogewey: “I sat in a very nice bar on a covered terrace in the Hogewey compound…sipping a glass of wine I observed several ‘inmates’ making their rounds. Very different routines…very odd behavior, and I could not help thinking about the movie The Truman Show with Jim Carrey…except that there were no scripts followed here.” Personal correspondence with author, February 25, 2020.