Accessibility in buildings and building design Books
RIBA Publishing Wheelchair Housing Design Guide
Book SynopsisThis guide provides all the information you need to design good quality, wheelchair accessible housing. Filled with practical advice, insightful design considerations and clear explanations, this book outlines how to meet the Building Regulations, Approved Document M Volume 1 M4(3): Wheelchair user dwellings. Detailed good practice recommendations and design features are also given for those looking to surpass the minimum standard. This comprehensive resource has been produced with expert contributions from the Centre for Accessible Environments and the Royal College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section – Housing, along with input from a cross-section of experts including building control, architects, developers and other housing professionals. Includes clear cross-references to AD M4(3) Technical diagrams illustrating design details Simple to follow guidance on best practice and technical provisions Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Strategic site development2. Using outdoor spaces3. External approach routes4. Communal entrances, doors and circulation5. Individual dwelling entrances and other external doors6. Dwelling circulation and storage7. Moving between levels within the dwelling8. Using living spaces9. Using the kitchen10. Bedrooms11. Bathrooms12. Operating internal doors and windows13. Services and controls
£34.20
Intellect Books Cross-Cultural Design for Healthy Ageing
Book SynopsisThis book is based on many years of research and practical pedagogical experiences around cross-cultural and multidisciplinary design for healthy ageing. It provides important insight into origins, design, implementation, and impact of cross-cultural design student study tours, and takes an original approach by foregrounding pedagogical practice for exploring healthy ageing solutions. The populations of Australia and many other countries in the Asia Pacific region are ageing. The next few decade will see up to half of the population in many countries represented by the over 65s. The impact of this change in population balance will be profound and it represents a potential global shift in design for society. This will challenge designers, planners and health care professionals to develop solutions to better meet the needs and harness the capacity of our growing and diversifying populations of older citizens, in relation to housing, community interaction and co-operation, health and well-being, and the integration new technologies. Different disciplinary and cultural perspectives can be a means to create new ideas and approaches that provide a deeper understanding of the needs of the global ageing population. This book examines some of the challenges associated with ageing in multi-cultural societies. We explore some of the major issues facing society in the area of ‘healthy ageing’ and propose a method of working with cross-disciplinary groups of health practitioners, designers, architects and cultural practitioners. Through case-studies of a series of workshops run in China and Singapore with Australian, Chinese and Singaporean students, we review the benefits of this approach and provide a framework for engaging designers, planners and health professionals in the process of creating new design solutions for the growing global ageing population. This book is especially useful for academics and educators in the design and health areas. Design professionals in urban, architectural, interior, industrial, graphic, multimedia, fashion, interaction, service and user-experience design will find many useful ideas. Health professionals across the range of disciplines, including medical practitioners, nurses, physiotherapists, other allied health professionals and carers practising in different settings such as aged-care facilities, government offices and others will also find it useful. It also provides insights and ideas for innovators, businesses and everybody interested in exploring design and innovation for an ageing population, which has been identified as a growing market. It may also be useful to anyone who wants to understand how to provide care for ageing members of the family and friends, or for anyone who wants to better understand issues around their own ageing. Although there are many articles and books on social design, there has been very little work on the methods to combine the discipline areas of Health and Design in the creation of concepts and artefacts around design for healthy ageing. There is also very little on the understanding of ‘Cross-cultural Empathy’ in design. This book takes an original approach to ‘Design for Healthy Ageing’ by combining not only a varied discipline group of practitioners from design and health but also presenting cross-cultural methods to deal with issues associated with the social cause. The primary readership will include professionals and academics in the areas of cross-cultural design, health, ageing and related policies, government institutions and gerontologists. It will also be of interest to tutors and lecturers across design practice internationally, and the case studies are useful for those with a specific geographical interest (Australia, Singapore, China), including clinicians, carers and other health professionals in those areas.Table of ContentsList of figures List of tables Foreword Tamsin Greulich-Smith Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1. Overview Carlos Montana- Hoyos 2. Approaching Social Design Challenges through Multidisciplinary Collaboration Lisa Scharoun, Carlos Montana- Hoyos, and Fanke Peng 3. Cross-Cultural Empathy in Design for Health Vivien Sung 4. Clinician Perspectives on Preregistration Nursing Student Participation in Interdisciplinary, Cross-Cultural Study Tours and Design Workshops Danny Hills, Khoon Kiat Tan, and Doreen Heng 5. Case Study: Cross-Cultural Design Workshops for Healthy Ageing in China Fanke Peng, Li Hao, and Katrina Recoche 6. Design for Healthy Ageing in Multicultural Societies: Approaching Issues Associated with Ageing in Singapore and Australia through Cross- Cultural and Multidisciplinary Workshops Lisa Scharoun and Jie Hong Liu 7. Student Perspectives on Participation in Multidisciplinary, Cross-Cultural Study Tours and Design Workshops Danny Hills, with contributions 8. Conclusions, Overview, and Recommendations Lisa Scharoun, Fanke Peng, Danny Hills, Jie Hong Liu, Carlos Montana- Hoyos, and Vivien Sung Afterword Marina Dzhashi Bibliography Notes on editors Notes on contributors Index
£30.60
Penguin Books Ltd Every Cripple a Superhero
Book Synopsis'Fascinating ... compelling ... very funny' Sunday Times'A defiant call to arms ... affecting ... lingers long in the memory after its final page' Morning Star'A skilful act of literary witness, sharp, moving and funny' Joanne Limburg 'Christoph Keller ... ranks among the great Swiss writers' Neue Zürcher ZeitungMost stories of disability follow a familiar pattern: Life Before Accident. Life After Accident. For Christoph Keller, it was different: his childhood diagnosis with a form of Spinal Muscular Atrophy only revealed what had been with him since birth. SMA III, the 'kindest one', allows those who have it to live a long life, and it progresses slowly. There is no cure. By the age of 25, he had to use a wheelchair some of the time. 'There were two of me: Walking Me. Rolling Me.' By 32, he could still walk into a restaurant with a cane or on somebody's arm. At 45, 'Rolling Me' took over altogether.Intimate, absurdist and winningly frank, Every Cripple a Superhero is at once a memoir of life with a progressive disorder, and a profound exploration of the challenges of loving, being loved, and living a public life - navigating restaurants, aeroplanes, museums and artists' retreats - in a world not designed for you. Threaded throughout are Keller's own photographs of the unexpected beauty found in puddle-filled 'curb cuts', the pavement ramps that, left to disintegrate, form part of the urban obstacle course. Those puddles become portals into a different, truer city; and, as they do, so this book - told with humour and immense grace - begins to uncover a truer world: one where the 'normal' is not normal, where disability is far more widespread than we might think, and where there always exist, just alongside our own, the lives of everyday superheroes.Trade ReviewFascinating ... [The book is] a series of snapshots, anecdotes, poems and short stories about what it is to be disabled in a world that isn't very interested in accommodating disability. This isn't an angry book, it's a very funny one ... compelling and unsettling. The tension between Keller's intellect and his physical weakness courses through the writing ...Yet his gripe is not with his own physical limitations ... Keller is asking us to consider whether it is disability that is the problem, or whether it is a society that insists on seeing people with disabilities that way -- Rosie Kinchen * The Sunday Times *A defiant call to arms ... angry and funny in equal measure ... [Keller's life story is] enough to move any reader to remove dust from their proverbial eye ... moving ... Every Cripple a Superhero lingers long in the memory after its final page -- Craig Campbell * Morning Star *A skilful act of literary witness, sharp, moving and funny -- Joanne Limburg, author of Letters to My Weird SistersWhat is it like to have a 'wasting' disease? In Every Cripple a Superhero, the excellence of Christoph Keller's writing is matched by its fearlessness. Precision, tragicomedy, quiet rage, elegant storytelling; every awkwardness, every frustration, every terror, every abjection is illuminated by the superpower of his style. No word or phrase is wasted in this marvellous book. And by the way, it is also a love story -- Alicia Ostriker, New York State Poet Laureate 2018-2021 and author of The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019An eye-opener regarding the everyday obstacles the author has to overcome when negotiating his local environment. The passage describing the absurd, insulting, and tragi-comic experience of visiting an award-winning new building and finding the only way to enter by wheelchair is via a remote corner of the building should be compulsory reading for anyone aiming to design inclusive spaces -- Laura Vaughan, Professor of Urban Form and Society, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College LondonShocking ... Keller's humor is quiet and sophisticated, melancholic and sarcastic, wide awake and always open to the unexpectedly beautiful ... [his] book has a lightness that brings tears to your eyes * Kulturzeitschrift *Everyone who doesn't use a wheelchair, and everyone who does, should read Christoph Keller's Every Cripple A Superhero. So many worlds exist side-by-side, yet we seldom truly enter the experience of another. Grace, strength, and humor are superpowers of extraordinary depth and stature, and Keller's slender, powerful book glows like a supernova -- Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Quiet Dell and Lark and TermiteExplosive and moving, the book also has a real capacity to open the eyes of readers and to change attitudes * Procap Magazine *Christoph Keller ... ranks among the great Swiss writers * Neue Zürcher Zeitung *
£10.44
Emerald Publishing Limited Smart Cities for Sustainability: Approaches and
Book SynopsisThe application of technology, in smart cities, to create meaningful sustainability is set to change all our lives. The smart city of the future will be equipped with communication infrastructures to improve the comfort of all citizens, while respecting the environment, and supporting good governance. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) will play a key role, making it possible to better manage infrastructure and transport. Contributors from around the world here present modern insights for use by decision-makers to solve real-world challenges. The authors shed light on forthcoming developments and set out how to plan for increasingly rapid changes. Smart Cities for Sustainability: Approaches and Solutions provides a modern insight for researchers, students, professionals, and decision-makers on the application of digitalization in global cities to achieve their SDG goals.Table of ContentsPART I: Smart cities and technologies Chapter 1. Post Pandemic Urban Planning and Use of Information Technologies in Smart Cities; Seher Konak Chapter 2. Smart Destinations and Eco-Friendly Practices; Cenk Murat Koçoğlu, Burak Pınaroğlu, and Emrah Yaşarsoy Chapter 3. Alternative model of living: Smart ecocities; Beyza Hatırnaz, Dilek Demirer, and Emrah Özkul Chapter 4. Urban Transport Solutions for a Sustainable and Smart Mobility Future: Macro-Environmental Analysis; Marwa Ben Ali and Ghada Boukettaya Chapter 5. Evaluation of Smart City Projects in Eco-Gastronomy Dimension: The Example of Turkey; Fatih Varol, Merve Oksuz and Eren Yalcın Chapter 6. Blue-Green Smart U-Cities via Clean Technologies: Towards High Sustainable, and Low Greenhouse Gases Emissions Urban Areas; Hamid Doost Mohammadian Chapter 7. DRMM and Comprehensive Global Blue-Green Clean Sustainable Urban Mobility Risk Mitigation Plan for Mapping Future Smart Cities through the 5th Wave Theory; Hamid Doost Mohammadian PART II. Digitalization and Sustainability Chapter 8. Eco-City Tourism in Smart Cities for Sustainability; Burcu Kıvılcım Zorba Chapter 9. Smart Tourism Destinations and Digitalization of Cultural Heritage for Sustainability; Nil Sonuç and Seda Süer Chapter 10. Recent Developments in the Evaluation of Renewable Energy Resources in Tourism Businesses: A Literature Review Based on Bibliometric and Content Analysis; Metin Sürme and Dilara Bahtıyar Sarı Chapter 11. Urban 6.0 and Utopia Concepts via Sustainable, Clean, Inclusive, Innovative & U-Mobility through the Theory of Comprehensive Everything; Hamid Doost Mohammadian Chapter 12. Mapping Future Urban Plan– towards Blue-Green Smart City & Mobility through the 5th Wave, i-Sustainability Plus, & DCT Theories; Hamid Doost Mohammadian
£95.00
RIBA Publishing The Access Audit Handbook: An inclusive approach
Book SynopsisOur buildings and environments should be inclusive to all, but how can we assess this? The Access Audit Handbook is an indispensable tool for auditing the accessibility of buildings and services. This book offers straightforward advice about undertaking access audits and explains how they make buildings, environments and services more inclusive. Following the audit, the book explains how each of the various report formats works best to communicate recommendations in the content of current legislation, funding requirements and best practice in building management. Well established as the best resource for conducting access audits, the third edition of The Access Audit Handbook is fully up to date with the latest legal and technical standards as well as developments in equipment and building maintenance. Featuring advice on: - Commissioning an access audit- Audit methodology- Making recommendations- Report writing. The practical guidance is supported by case studies, worked examples and checklists. Table of Contents Introduction1.0 Access audits1.1 What is an access audit?1.2 Access audits and the Equality Act 20101.3 Access audits, access statements and the planning and building regulations process1.4 What follows an access audit?1.5 Commissioning an access audit2.0 Audit methodology2.1 The site survey2.2 What do you audit?2.3 Survey equipment2.4 Observational assessment2.5 Data recording2.6 User participation2.7 Building management3.0 Report writing3.1 A communication tool3.2 Report formats3.3 Establishing the legislative context3.4 Criteria for assessment and design guidance3.5 Making recommendations3.6 Priorities and categories3.7 Cost banding4.0 Case Studies 4.1 Almeida Theatre4.2 Penguin Beach , ZSL 4.3 Christ Church4.4 Guildhall, City of London 4.5 Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London4.6 Hebdon Bridge Town Hall 5.0 Access audit checklists6.0 Appendices6.1 Organisations6.2 PublicationsIndexImage Credits
£38.00
