ALL URBAN DESIGN SHOULD BE HUMAN-CENTERED

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT

While Universal Design serves all ages well, it is a must for people with disabilities.

Sadly a lot of professionals who design and regulate the built environment – cling to some wrong-headed notion that disability is an outlier.

The snide part of me says that perhaps they have built so many barriers and paid so little attention to the ADA or Universal Design, that they’ve isolated people with disabilities from their cities and neighborhoods – and you don’t see those you deny access to.