Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader

Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader

This book explores the interconnections between disability, architecture and cities. Contributions come from architecture, geography, anthropology, health studies, English literature, rhetoric, art history, disability studies and disability arts and cover personal, theoretical and innovative ideas and work. By bringing together in one place seminal texts and projects, as well as newly commissioned writings, the volume engages with disability in unexpected and exciting ways that inform 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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