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Accessible housing : quality, disability and design

Title
Accessible housing : quality, disability and design / Rob Imrie.
Author
Imrie, Robert, 1958-
Publication
Agingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

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Description
x, 250 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
Rob Imrie considers the relationships between disability and housing design with a focus on the role of policy in addressing the housing needs of disabled people, and sets out broader debates about the nature of housing, quality and design.
Subject
  • Barrier-free design
  • barrier-free design
  • Barrier-free design
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-243) and index.
Contents
Accessible housing, quality and design -- Disability, design and the speculative house-building industry -- Housing quality, standards and the domestic environment -- 'Ideal homes' -- House builders, disability and the design of dwellings -- Regulation of the house-building industry -- Experiential knowledge as a component of housing quality.
ISBN
  • 0415318912
  • 0415318920
  • 9780415318914
  • 9780415318921
LCCN
2005001624
OCLC
  • ocm57475806
  • 57475806
  • SCSB-13607403
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library