UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT
One of the problems is recruiting and retaining people with disabilities in the urban design and related professions.
I have worked directly with well more than 2,000
planners, architects and engineers – those who create virtually all of the
built environment.
Few if any have had a wheelchair user on their full-time staff.
If I met a person with a mobility impairment, it was a temporary one
from a skiing accident…meaning they would not have to find permanent
accessible housing, transportation, recreation, jobsite and much more.
Perhaps there were some people with invisible
disabilities, such as epilepsy.
That is good for diversity, but how can you know what is
really needed to thrive with a disability, if you are basing your design on a
60 minute ADA webinar you half paid attention to or a 75 minute continuing
education Universal Design course that you used to catch up on texts and
emails?
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