Accessible Housing: Quality, Disability and Design

✍ Scribed by Rob Imrie

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 263
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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 is 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. To date there is little or no knowledge about the range of approaches to accessible design in housing nor how far policies and practices are adequate or not in creating accessible home environments. This book will go some way to address this shortfall in knowledge.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
The author......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Illustration credits......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
PART I CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS......Page 24
1 Accessible housing,quality and design......Page 26
2 Disability,design and the speculative house-building industry......Page 58
3 Housing quality,standards and the domestic environment......Page 81
PART II SECURING ACCESSIBLE HOMES......Page 102
4 ‘Ideal homes’ Disabled people’s experiences of domestic design......Page 104
Case study Domestic lives – Jenny, Elaine and Toni......Page 123
5 House builders,disability and the design of dwellings......Page 128
Case study Constructing accessible dwellings on sloping sites......Page 148
6 The regulation of the house-building industry......Page 154
Case study Securing accessible housing in two English towns*......Page 172
7 Experiential knowledge as a component of housing quality......Page 178
Case study Cultivating influence through disabled people’s organizations......Page 195
PART III PROMOTING ACCESSIBLE HOUSING......Page 204
8 Inclusive domestic environments......Page 206
Endnotes......Page 220
APPENDICES 1 Research design and methods......Page 230
2 Disability and patterns of housing disadvantage......Page 236
3 Telephone survey data......Page 237
References......Page 240
Index......Page 258

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