Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Urban transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Urban Transportation Abstracts
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Urban transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Accessible America
Author: Bess WilliamsonPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479802492
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A history of design that is often overlooked—until we need it Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you’ve benefited from accessible design—design for people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities. These ubiquitous touchstones of modern life were once anything but. Disability advocates fought tirelessly to ensure that the needs of people with disabilities became a standard part of public design thinking. That fight took many forms worldwide, but in the United States it became a civil rights issue; activists used design to make an argument about the place of people with disabilities in public life. In the aftermath of World War II, with injured veterans returning home and the polio epidemic reaching the Oval Office, the needs of people with disabilities came forcibly into the public eye as they never had before. The US became the first country to enact federal accessibility laws, beginning with the Architectural Barriers Act in 1968 and continuing through the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, bringing about a wholesale rethinking of our built environment. This progression wasn’t straightforward or easy. Early legislation and design efforts were often haphazard or poorly implemented, with decidedly mixed results. Political resistance to accommodating the needs of people with disabilities was strong; so, too, was resistance among architectural and industrial designers, for whom accessible design wasn’t “real” design. Bess Williamson provides an extraordinary look at everyday design, marrying accessibility with aesthetic, to provide an insight into a world in which we are all active participants, but often passive onlookers. Richly detailed, with stories of politics and innovation, Williamson’s Accessible America takes us through this important history, showing how American ideas of individualism and rights came to shape the material world, often with unexpected consequences.
Developments in Aging
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on AgingPublisher:
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Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
Book Description
Bibliography of Reports by the National Academy of Sciences, 1945-1985
Author: Urban Transportation for Handicapped Persons
Author: United States. Congressional Budget OfficePublisher:
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Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Costs and effectiveness of plans for transit modifications, dial-a-ride vans, low-cost taxi service and grants for purchase of automobiles with controls for the handicapped.
A Report to the President and the Congress of the United States
Author: United States. Motor Carrier Ratemaking Study CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Community Planning Report
Author: Special Report - Transportation Research Board, National Research Council
Author: News Report
Author: National Research Council (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Institutional Disability
Author: Robert A. KatzmannPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815716281
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This case study of transportation policy for disabled people illustrates the flaws in policymaking that lead many Americans to believe government is not working as it should. Robert A. Katzmann examines the workings of the legislative, administrative, and judicial processes, both separately and in interaction, as he relates the erratic path of transportation policy for the disabled over two decades. An estimated 13.4 million people in this country have difficulty using public transportation, but the federal response to their problems of mobility is of fairly recent vintage, beginning with legislation in the early 1970s. Since then, there have been many twists and turns in policy, involving a wide array of governmental institutions. These constant shifts have confused state and local governments, the transit industry, and the disabled community. Assessing why policy was so erratic, Katzmann concludes that in part the confusion resulted from the inability to choose between conflicting approaches to the problem--one oriented toward the rights of equal access for the disabled, and the other favoring effective mobility by any practical means. In addition, the conflict between these two policy approaches was compounded by increasing fragmentation within and among national institutions.