Access for All: Approaches to the Built Environment

✍ Scribed by Wolfgang Christ (auth.), Wolfgang Christ (eds.)

Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 183
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-9
Introduction....Pages 10-15
Elevation — A cultural history of the elevator....Pages 16-29
Megamobility — Technology for the individual in the urbanised world....Pages 30-43
Cooperation — Urban planning is a community project....Pages 44-61
Variety — The Südstadt in Tübingen as a model for the city....Pages 62-77
Syntax — Planning urban accessibility....Pages 78-93
Image — The imaginary as an instrument of urban and regional planning....Pages 94-111
Practice — Reducing barriers....Pages 112-119
Everyday life — Normalisation breeds discrimination....Pages 120-133
Public utility — Car sharing as a complementary means of urban mobility....Pages 134-143
Reflection — Philosophy for everyone?....Pages 144-157
Internet — Digital inclusion for everyone regardless of their abilities....Pages 158-169
Competition — The Schindler Award and the culture of education....Pages 170-180
Back Matter....Pages 181-184

✦ Subjects

Architectural History and Theory; Architecture, general; Urbanism

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