Urban Travel, Sustainability & Accessibility

AVOID THE SINS OF THE PAST BY GETTING  MEANINGFUL INPUT FROM MARGINALIZED PEOPLE   From toolkits to common sense ways of broadening input by...

AVOID THE SINS OF THE PAST BY GETTING  MEANINGFUL INPUT FROM MARGINALIZED PEOPLE Planning, well-meaning or not so, has rarely produced equit...

I AM FEATURED AS A UNIVERSAL DESIGN  EXPERT IN THIS ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY I am proud to share details of U.S. premiere of the ...

It's 2020, people with disabilities, so you have every right to demand access from your: Hotel Plane Train Boat Park Mu...

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Alphonse “Scarface” Capone got his first taste of prison life in Philadelphia.  He stopped in Philadelphia...

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site is located at 22nd Street and Fairmount Avenue, just five blocks fr...

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Eastern State Penitentiary’s vaulted, sky-lit cells once held many of America's most notorious criminals...

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Though “Pep the black” was sentenced to life in prison for murder, he was an ideal cellmate. Not only was this...

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Known for its grand architecture and strict discipline, Eastern State Penitentiary was the world's first...

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Many visitors with special needs visit Eastern State Penitentiary every year.  That said, the penitentiar...

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA For an old eastern seaboard city, Philadelphia has made great strides toward being more accessible to people...

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Covering an indoor and outdoor space equivalent to half a city block, Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens glistens ...

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA A million objects — including art and artifacts from around the globe — are housed at the Penn Museum, one o...

TODAY WE CELEBRATE MORE THAN 185,000 UNIQUE VISITS TO THIS BLOG This blog launched around Memorial Day 2010. It has more than 2,100...

Resources: • Brooklyn Bridge Park:  www.brooklynbridgepark.org/pages/accessibility • Liquid Planning Detroit:  www.made-studio.org...

BERKELEY Goltsman and MIG fellow partner Tim Gilbert, MIG’s director of Universal Design Services, both are active in the re:Street...

ALWAYS A DREAM PLAY PARK MIG has designed dozens of barrier-free parks and written accessible recreation guidelines for several agen...

MIG Berkeley-based MIG was founded in 1982 to focus on planning, designing and sustaining environments that support human development...

DENISE ARNOLD, ARCHITECT To Arnold, who also worked to place wheelchair-accessible beach mats that lead directly into Lake Michigan ...

CATALAN ARTIST JAUME PLENSA “The fountain is the coolest thing in the world, and the reflecting pool has no more than a quarter-inch...