Inclusive Design: Designing and Developing Accessible Environments

ISBN-13: 9781138147812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 202 str.

Rob Imrie; Peter Hall

Opis

Inclusive Design is a documentation of the attitudes, values, and practices of property professionals, including developers, surveyors and architects, in responding to the building needs of disabled people.

Recenzje

'This is a well written and informative book on an important topic. The authors have taken an interesting perspective on access and the built environment by focussing on the role of the development industry. Their findings are shocking. Anyone interested in urban issues will find a wealth of insightful material in this book' Nick Oatley, University of the West of England

'this book provides documentation of the attitudes and values of developers, surveyors, architects and landscape architects to the building needs of disabled people, primarily in the UK. Throughout the book are case studies, from property professionals and disabled people, showing that many public and designed spaces do not currently provide access for everyone. It also ackowledges the need for increased legislation and regulatory controls' Sue Basett, Landscape Design Magazine.

'Inclusive Design is a fine and valuable book, full of interesting material.' - Housing Studies

'This is the best book on the subject of disability and access. It is very well written and uses imaginative examples to present a powerful portrayal of disabled people's exclusion from the built environment.' - M. Dolton, London

Spis treści

List of Figures. The Authors. Acknowledgements. Preface. Part 1: Debate. 1. Inclusive Design and Development in the Built Environment. 2. Barriers to Disabled People's Inclusion in the Built Environment. 3. Access Directives in the Development and Design Process. Part 2: Illustrations. 4. Developers' Responses to the Building Needs of Disabled People. 5. Architects and Disabling Design Practices. 6. Shaping Access Through Institutional and Project Team Dynamics. Part 3: Reflections. 7. Alternative Directions in Property Development, Disability and Design. Footnotes. Appendices. References. Index.

O autorze

Rob Imrie is a professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway University of London. His research interests include the geographies of mobilty and movement of disabled people, urban design and disability, and urban politics and governmentality. Peter Hall is a full time researcher in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway employed on a Leverhulme Trust funded project on 'Architects and Disabling Design in the Built Environment'.