Building access : universal design and the politics of disability / Aimi Hamraie.
"Reveals that the twentieth-century shift from 'design for the average' to 'design for all' took place through political, economic, and scientific structures concerned with defining the disabled user and designing with them in mind. Tracing the coevolution of accessible desi...
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University of Minnesota Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Normate Template : Knowing-Making the Architectural Inhabitant
- Flexible Users: From the Average Body to a Range of Users
- All Americans : Disability, Race, and Segregated Citizenship
- Sloped Technoscience : Curb Cuts, Critical Frictions, and Disability (Maker) Cultures
- Epistemic Activism : Design Expertise as a Site of Intervention
- Barrier Work : Before and After the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Entangled Principles : Crafting a Universal Design Methodology.