Urban Travel, Sustainability & Accessibility

REMOVE BUMPY SURFACES THAT ENDANGER WHEELCHAIR USERS It’s time to say goodbye to the pavers that are a wheelchair mobility hazard on the s...

  MARK – A CALL TO ACTION GLOBAL RELEASE OCTOBER 8, 2024 Thanks to award-winning producer-director Ron Small and the Bookman F...

COULD BE COMING SOONER THAN YOU THINK The headline contains the good/hopeful news. But first the bad. For more than half a century, my w...

THE KEY TO EQUITY, INCLUSION, DIVERSITY AND ACCESSIBILITY I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on Universal Design to 50+ experts at t...

  MAKE IT WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES   What produces better metrics than city infrastructure that allows an unemployed person to beco...

   MAKE IT WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES What could possibly be a better investment than converting a person on assistance into a proud,...

  MAKE IT WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES People with disabilities are resourceful, brilliant, and starving for that first job and better ...

  MAKE IT WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Want to make your town stronger still?  Stop looking at ADA compliance with contempt and at barr...

  MAKE IT WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Best of all, these kinds of investments bring in a huge bang for the buck. If you design, after ...

  MAKE IT WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES People with disabilities are not served by the suburban development pattern, by roads to nowhere...

  MAKE IT WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Many cities will be making things more pedestrian-friendly, adding open space, reinventing the b...

  MAKE IT WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Ask any person with a disability. They will tell you their body is not what limits them.  Endles...

  MAKE IT WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Physical barriers like these have caused unrivaled poverty for people with disabilities, who are...

  MAKE IT WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Barriers remain in many forms. For example, a brand-new building with steps at the main entrance...

  MAKE IT WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES There has been a lot of attention paid to environmental justice—reversing the ills urban plannin...

  MAKE IT WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES An accessible built environment is wise spending, because it takes existing urban density, walka...

  MAKE IT WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES The beauty of this approach is that what works for a person with a disability works for all. A c...

MAKE IT WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES The stimulus bill is delivering billions to U.S. cities.  As we try to rebound, significant spendi...

MAKE IT WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) hasn’t guaranteed accessibility and inclusion for people...

ENSURING THE 15-MINUTE CITY SERVES ALL “While urban central areas are gentrifying and real estate has become a luxury good, there are millio...