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by Jos Boys (Editor)

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Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader takes a groundbreaking approach to exploring the interconnections between disability, architecture and cities. The contributions come from architecture, geography, anthropology, health studies, English language and literature, rhetoric and composition, art history, disability studies and disability arts and cover personal, theoretical and innovative ideas and work.

Richer approaches to disability - beyond regulation and design guidance - remain fragmented and difficult to find for architectural and built environment students, educators and professionals. By bringing together in one place some seminal texts and projects, as well as newly commissioned writings, readers can engage with disability in unexpected and exciting ways that can vibrantly inform their understandings of architecture and urban design.

Most crucially, Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader opens up not just disability but also ability - dis/ability - as a means of refusing the normalisation of only particular kinds of bodies in the design of built space. It reveals how our everyday social attitudes and practices about people, objects and spaces can be better understood through the lens of disability, and it suggests how thinking differently about dis/ability can enable innovative and new kinds of critical and creative architectural and urban design education and practice.

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Title Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader
Author Jos Boys (Editor)
Binding Paperback
Edition Paperback
Pages 318
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Routledge
Publication date 2017
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9781138676435 / 1138676438
Weight 1.72 lbs (0.78 kg)
Dimensions 9.6 x 6.8 x 0.7 in (24.38 x 17.27 x 1.78 cm)
Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Topical: Physically Challenged
Category Architecture
Library of Congress subjects Architecture and society, Architecture - Human factors
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016036334
Dewey Decimal Code 725.53

About the author

Jos Boys trained in architecture and has worked as a journalist, researcher, academic and community-based practitioner. As a non-disabled person she is particularly interested in how architects and other built environment professionals can act creatively and responsively as designers and policy-makers without misrepresenting or marginalising disabled people. Her previous book, Doing Disability Differently: An Alternative Handbook on Architecture, Dis/ability and Designing for Everyday Life, grew out of a series of collaborations between disabled artists and architects, through a group she co-founded called Architecture-Inside Out. Previously Jos has written extensively about feminism and architecture. She was co-founder of Matrix, a feminist architectural design and research practice, and has been a member of the TakingPlace art and architecture collective.

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