The Architecture of Disability : Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes Beyond Access.
Title:
The Architecture of Disability : Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes Beyond Access.
Author:
Gissen, David.
ISBN:
9781452968551
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (215 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: From Accessible Design to an Architecture of Disability -- Chapter 1: Impaired Monuments: Architecture, History, and the Preservation of Disability -- Chapter 2: Of a Weaker Nature: Wilderness, Urban Landscapes, and Biocapacity -- Chapter 3: The Urbanization of Disability -- Chapter 4: A Form of Impairment: Empathy and Disfigurement in Architectural Aesthetics -- Chapter 5: Disabling Environments: Human Physiology and Its Architectural Conditions -- Chapter 6: The Construction of Disability: Another Architectural Theory of Tectonics -- Coda: The Practice of Disability -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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