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03857aam a2200421 i 4500 001 C60DAEC86FD711EE93D6B80232ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231021010103 008 191108s2020 nyua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1479802492 020 $a 9781479802494 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d SFB $d OCLCQ $d SVP $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d MNG $d XII $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a HV1553 $b .W55 2020 082 04 $a 362.4/047 $2 23 100 1 $a Williamson, Bess, $e author. 245 10 $a Accessible America : $b a history of disability and design / $c Bess Williamson. 246 30 $a History of disability and design 264 1 $a New York : $b New York University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a vii, 279 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-265) and index. 520 $a Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you've benefited from accessible design - design for people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities. These ubiquitous touchstones of modern life were once anything but. Disability advocates fought tirelessly to ensure that the needs of people with disabilities became a standard part of public design thinking. That fight took many forms worldwide, but in the United States it became a civil rights issue; activists used design to make an argument about the place of people with disabilities in public life. In the aftermath of World War II, with injured veterans returning home and the polio epidemic reaching the Oval Office, the needs of people with disabilities came forcibly into the public eye as they never had before. The U.S. became the first country to enact federal accessibility laws, beginning with the Architectural Barriers Act in 1968 and continuing through the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, bringing about a wholesale rethinking of our built environment. This progression wasn't straightforward or easy. Early legislation and design efforts were often haphazard or poorly implemented, with decidedly mixed results. Political resistance to accommodating the needs of people with disabilities was strong; so, too, was resistance among architectural and industrial designers, for whom accessible design wasn't "real" design -- Conclusion : Design for all? 505 0 $a Introduction: Disability, design and rights in the twentieth century -- Progress through prosthetics: limbs, carts, houses and the American dream -- Disability in the century of the gadget: rehabilitation and access in postwar America -- Electric moms and quad drivers: do-it-yourself access at home in postwar America -- Berkeley, California: an independent style of access -- Kneeling to the disabled: access and backlash -- From accessible to universal :design in the late twentieth century -- Beyond ramps: cripping design -- Conclusion: design for all? 650 0 $a People with disabilities $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Barrier-free design $z United States. 650 0 $a Universal design $z United States. 650 6 $a Personnes handicapeÌes $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire. 650 6 $a AccessibiliteÌ aux personnes handicapeÌes $z EÌtats-Unis. 650 6 $a Conception universelle $z EÌtats-Unis. 650 7 $a Barrier-free design. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00827762 650 7 $a People with disabilities. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01057245 650 7 $a Universal design. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01161561 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20231021031935.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C60DAEC86FD711EE93D6B80232ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search