While many cities have shown efforts to implement accessible design since the 1990 adoption of the American Disabilities Act, more must be done
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) turned 30 this summer.
Everyone whose work impacts the built
environment – architects, engineers, urban designers, town planners, landscape
architects, interior designers and the public officials who oversee their work
in the public realm – should be scrambling to do something to observe this
landmark federal civil rights legislation.
While the ADA is not a building code
or some kind of zoning that can be ignored via variance (though I could fill a
large room with designers who seemed willfully ignorant in perpetuating that
false assumption) – its biggest impact by far has been on the civic realm.
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