Designing for the Disabled: The New Paradigm: The New Paradigm Book

	Preface
Pt. 1	The evolution of accessibility controls	1
1	Where I came in	3
2	Tim Nugent - the idealist who changed the world	8
3	The welfare path that I took	19
4	America: into the mainstream	31
5	Britain: cementing the welfare fabric	37
6	The design standards trap	47
7	America: the emergence of the disability rights movement	52
8	Britain: discrimination and the force of the disability lobby	58
9	Britain: the pressure for regulations	72
10	America: the advance towards the Americans with Disabilities Act	77
11	Britain: the turmoil on the way from Part T to Part M	85
12	The Americans with Disabilities Act	100
13	Britain: the Part M building regulation	112
14	The European scene	117
15	Britain: the Disability Discrimination Act	122
16	America and Britain: the faultlines of accessibility controls	136
Pt. 2	Architectural disablement	145
17	Architects and the architectural model of disability	147
18	Building users - the real numbers	159
19	Public toilets - the issues encapsulated	177
20	Sensorily impaired people	190
21	My experiences as a building user	209
Pt. 3	Britain: how accessibility controls might be reformulated	241
22	Why Britain can't be like America	243
23	Accessibility controls: the position in early 1997	250
24	The problems posed by the Disability Discrimination Act	257
25	The reformulation of controls for new buildings	264
26	Alterations to existing buildings	278
27	The Annex A document and thoughts on further research	288
Annex A	The proposed Built Environment (Accessibility) Act: Draft Model for Authorized Guidance Document
Annex B	Housing
App. 1	Wheelchair users in European and English towns	365
App. 2	Building users, user subgroups and building usage	366
App. 3	Public buildings: toilet users with special needs	374
App. 4	Comparative dimensions and areas of wc compartments	379
App. 5	Lobbies to public toilets	381
App. 6	Height criteria for building fixtures and fittings	383
App. 7	Steps and stairs	388
App. 8	Blind people	390
App. 9	Tactile pavings	392
App. 10	The Audit Commission's measure of accessible local authority buildings	397
App. 11	The current (1997) Part M Building Regulation	398
	References and Bibliography
	Bibliography, subject headings	399
	References	400
	Bibliography	406
	Index	421