Access for all : approaches to the built environment / Wolfgang Christ (ed.) ; with a foreword by Thomas Sieverts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Christ, Wolfgang, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society.

Architecture--Human factors.

Architecture.

Barrier-free design.

City planning.

Universal design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages)

Other Title:

Approaches to the built environment

Place of Publication:

Basel [Switzerland] ; Boston : Birkhauser, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Access and accessibility are central themes in architecture and urbanism. Moreover, access is a key concept in many other areas such as knowledge and education, healthcare etc. This book deals with this world of access in architecture, city planning, and neighboring fields.

Access and accessibility are central themes in architecture and urbanism. The goal is to make buildings accessible both horizontally and vertically, as well as to provide them with technical infrastructure. But the aim is also to ensure the accessibility of whole streets, routes, parks, and squares, and even entire cities and regions. Today, access is a key concept in the most disparate areas of life. Thus, it is also a matter of access to knowledge and education, access to knowledge media like the Internet, access to healthcare, access to languages, etc. In thirteen articles, this book deals with this world of access in architecture, city planning, and neighboring fields. Topics include ensuring the accessibility of entire urban areas, renewing that of areas that were previously utilized differently, including the general populace in concept planning, and how architecture can help provide access to a better quality of life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Introduction / Christ, Wolfgang

Elevation - A cultural history of the elevator / Simmen, Jeannot

Megamobility - Technology for the individual in the urbanised world / Hughes, Jonas

Cooperation - Urban planning is a community project / Thompson, John / Zadow, Andreas von

Variety - The Südstadt in Tübingen as a model for the city / Soehlke, Cord

Syntax - Planning urban accessibility / Rose, Anna / Stonor, Tim

Image - The imaginary as an instrument of urban and regional planning / Christ, Wolfgang

Practice Reducing barriers / Edinger, Susanne

Everyday life - Normalisation breeds discrimination / Reinhard, Tobias

Public utility - Car sharing as a complementary means of urban mobility / Loose, Willi

Reflection - Philosophy for everyone? / Böhme, Gernot

Internet - Digital inclusion for everyone regardless of their abilities / Croll, Jutta

Competition - The Schindler Award and the culture of education / Sieverts, Thomas

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783034603799

3034603797

OCLC:

535009511