Older people and outdoor environments: Pedestrian anxieties and barriers in the use of familiar and unfamiliar spaces
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0016-7185/$ see front matter 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.04.002 q This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License, which permits noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (J. Phillips), nwalford@ kingston.ac.uk (N. Walford), [email protected] (A. Hockey), [email protected] (N. Foreman), [email protected] (M. Lewis). Judith Phillips a,⇑, Nigel Walford , Ann Hockey , Nigel Foreman , Michael Lewis e
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