Accessible Housing: Quality, Disability and Design

ISBN-13: 9780415318914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 264 str.

Rob Imrie

Opis

This book considers the interrelationships between disability and housing design with a focus on the role of policy in addressing the housing needs of disabled people. The book will set out some of the broader debates about the nature of housing, quality and design: in what ways are domestic design and architecture implicated in inhibiting or facilitating mobility and movement of people? What is the nature of government regulation and policy in relation to the design of home environments? This book addresses these questions, and brings a range of approaches to accessible design in housing to the forefront of debate, assessing how far policies and practices are equal to the challenge of creating accessible and desirable home environments.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Concepts and Contexts  1. Accessible Housing, Quality and Design  2. Disability, Design and the Speculative House Building Industry  3. Housing Quality, Standards, and the Domestic Environment  Part 2: Securing Accessible Homes  4. 'Ideal Homes': Disabled People's Experiences of Domestic Design.  Case Study: Domestic Lives - Jenny, Elaine and Toni  5. House Builders, Disability, and the Design of Dwellings.  Case Study: Constructing Accessible Houses on Sloping Sites  6. The Regulation of the House Building Industry.  Case Study: Securing Accessible Housing in Two English Towns  7. Experiential Knowledge as a Component of Housing Quality.  Case Study: Cultivating Influence through Disabled People's Organisations  Part 3: Promoting Accessible Housing  8. Inclusive Domestic Environments

O autorze

Rob Imrie is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is author of Disability and the City, co-author of Inclusive Design, and co-editor of British Urban Policy and Urban Renaissance: New Labour, community and urban policy.