Urban Travel, Sustainability & Accessibility

BAD THINGS HAPPEN BECAUSE PEOPLE BLOCK RAMPS WITH EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN Wheelchair access ramps are NOT: Places to park scooters or bik...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT I recount the conversation where the urban designers says, “I rarely see people with disabiliti...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT Government – be it a town, city, county, regional, state or federal agency – MUST take the lead...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT The template for hiring people with disabilities for urban design jobs is there. We just need...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT The key to people with disabilities working at planning and architecture firms is aggressive re...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT One of the problems is recruiting and retaining people with disabilities in the urban design an...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT Ever go to the opening ceremony for a new community pool, computer lab, daycare, gym, library? ...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT If the sidewalk network and/or transit station (think of hundreds of New York subway stations a...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT Disability discrimination is called ableism.  Ableism is devaluing a person with a disability...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT It is incredible that virtually every prototype for robotaxis and driverless public transportat...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT For those hardline fiscal folks unconvinced of spending to make every mode of transportation ac...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT Homebuilders must catch on that there is value in creating a house with one level entrance, wit...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT The ADA National Network has calculated that the cost of incorporating accessibility features i...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT The CDC has documented that one in four people will experience some degree of disability that i...

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...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT Note how Universal Design Creator Ronald L. Mace, who used a wheelchair for mobility, did not n...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT I did not invent Universal Design. That honor goes to the late architect and planner Ronald L...

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 w...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT Outdoor lifts – instead of less costly, low maintenance ramps – are routinely used as the only ...

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT I would be on the Forbes richest people on earth list if I had 10 bucks for every time a planne...