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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Williamson, Bess, author.     Subjects     People with disabilities -- United States -- History.     Barrier-free design -- United States.     Universal design -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Williamson, Bess, author.       by title:      Accessible America :...         MARC Display

Accessible America : a history of disability and design / Bess Williamson. by Williamson, Bess, author. New York : New York University Press, [2019] Subjects People with disabilities -- United States -- History.   Barrier-free design -- United States.   Universal design -- United States. ISBN:  9781479894093 hardcover ; alkaline paper Series:  Crip (Series) Description:  vii, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Contents:  Introduction: Disability, design, and rights in the twentieth century -- Progress through prosthetics : limbs, cars, houses, and the American dream -- Disability in the century of the gadget : rehabilitation and access in postwar America -- Electric moms and quad drivers : do-it-yourself access at home in postwar America -- Berkeley, California : an independent style of access -- Kneeling to the disabled : access and backlash -- From accessible to universal : design in the late twentieth century -- Beyond ramps : cripping design. Requests:  0 Summary:  Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you've benefited from accessible design - design for people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities. These ubiquitous touchstones of modern life were once anything but. Disability advocates fought tirelessly to ensure that the needs of people with disabilities became a standard part of public design thinking. That fight took many forms worldwide, but in the United States it became a civil rights issue; activists used design to make an argument about the place of people with disabilities in public life. In the aftermath of World War II, with injured veterans returning home and the polio epidemic reaching the Oval Office, the needs of people with disabilities came forcibly into the public eye as they never had before. The U.S. became the first country to enact federal accessibility laws, beginning with the Architectural Barriers Act in 1968 and continuing through the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, bringing about a wholesale rethinking of our built environment. This progression wasn't straightforward or easy. Early legislation and design efforts were often haphazard or poorly implemented, with decidedly mixed results. Political resistance to accommodating the needs of people with disabilities was strong; so, too, was resistance among architectural and industrial designers, for whom accessible design wasn't "real" design.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.4047 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 362.4047 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 362.4047 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.4047 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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