Monday, February 24, 2025

ALL URBAN DESIGN SHOULD BE HUMAN-CENTERED

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT


How can you be in the design business and pretend not to see that outdoor lifts fail to serve wheelchair users?

How disingenuous is it to say your studio designs for all, but you create a 400-unit apartment building – with 100 reserved to be affordable/accessible dwellings – accessed by an outdoor lift doomed to fail in less than a year of operation. 

For the record, I have surveyed 100 lifts in Miami-Dade County. More than 95% were nonfunctioning.

Many had been blocked by a potted plant.

Others led to locked doors. 

 

 

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