People with Disabilities are Not Innately Vulnerable (Part 1)

But when they are left out of the adaptation planning process — the consequences can be disastrous

Considering that one in five people on Earth will experience some type of life impacting disability in their life (some researchers say one in four), being a person with a disability is mainstream.

But a century of modern building and planning in the United States has created a barrier-filled built environment where people with disabilities continue to be limited by:

poor mobility and transit, civic and private buildings, park and open space, and dozens of other elements of inaccessible infrastructure.