Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Selwyn Goldsmith's Designing for the Disabled has, since it was first published in 1963, been a bible for practising architects around the world. Now, as a new book with a radical new vision, comes his Designing for the Disabled: The New Paradigm. Goldsmith's new paradigm is based on the concept of architectural disability. As a version of the social model of disability, it is not exclusively the property of physically disabled people. Others who are afflicted by it include women, since men customarily get proportionately four times as many amenities in public toilets as women - and women have to queue where men do not - and those with infants in pushchairs, because normal WC facilities are invariably too small to get a pushchair and infant into. To counter architectural disability, Goldsmith's line is that the axiom for legislation action has to be 'access for everyone' - it should not just be 'access for the disabled', as it presently is with the Part M building regulation and relevant provisions of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act. In a 40-page annex to his book he sets out the terms that a new-style Part M regulation and its Approved Document might take, one that would cover alterations to existing buildings as well as new buildings. But architects and building control officers need not, he says, wait for new a legislation to apply new practical procedures to meet the requirements of the current Part M regulation; they can, as he advises, act positively now. This is a book which will oblige architects to rethink the methodology of designing for the disabled. It is a book that no practising architect, building control officer, local planning officer or access officer can afford to be without.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. vii)
• Part 1 The evolution of accessibility controls (p. 1)
• 1 Where I came in (p. 3)
• 2 Tim Nugent - the idealist who changed the world (p. 8)
• 3 The welfare path that I took (p. 19)
• 4 America: into the mainstream (p. 31)
• 5 Britain: cementing the welfare fabric (p. 37)
• 6 The design standards trap (p. 47)
• 7 America: the emergence of the disability rights movement (p. 52)
• 8 Britain: discrimination and the force of the disability lobby (p. 58)
• 9 Britain: the pressure for regulations (p. 72)
• 10 America: the advance towards the Americans with Disabilities Act (p. 77)
• 11 Britain: the turmoil on the way from Part T to Part M (p. 85)
• 12 The Americans with Disabilities Act (p. 100)
• 13 Britain: the Part M building regulation (p. 112)
• 14 The European scene (p. 117)
• 15 Britain: the Disability Discrimination Act (p. 122)
• 16 America and Britain: the faultlines of accessibility controls (p. 136)
• Part 2 Architectural disablement (p. 145)
• 17 Architects and the architectural model of disability (p. 147)
• 18 Building users - the real numbers (p. 159)
• 19 Public toilets - the issues encapsulated (p. 177)
• 20 Sensorily impaired people (p. 190)
• 21 My experiences as a building user (p. 209)
• Part 3 Britain: how accessibility controls might be reformulated (p. 241)
• 22 Why Britain can't be like America (p. 243)
• 23 Accessibility controls: the position in early 1997 (p. 250)
• 24 The problems posed by the Disability Discrimination Act (p. 257)
• 25 The reformulation of controls for new buildings (p. 264)
• 26 Alterations to existing buildings (p. 278)
• 27 The Annex A document and thoughts on further research (p. 288)
• Annex A The proposed Built Environment (Accessibility) Act: Draft Model for Authorized Guidance Document
• Contents
• 1 Introduction (p. 294)
• 2 The Part Z building regulation (p. 295)
• 3 The terms of the Guidance (p. 296)
• 4 The control system (p. 298)
• 5 Building types: notional examples of the application of Part Z conditions (p. 301)
• 6 Menus for the setting of Part Z conditions (p. 308)
• 7 Mobility equipment: pushchairs, wheelchairs and scooters (p. 331)
• 8 Criteria for spaces in buildings (p. 333)
• 9 Steps and stairs (p. 336)
• Annex B Housing
• 1 Introduction (p. 337)
• 2 The concept of accessible housing (p. 338)
• 3 Mobility and wheelchair housing (p. 341)
• 4 The Housing Corporation and housing associations (p. 344)
• 5 Private sector housing and planning guidance (p. 349)
• 6 The prospective Part M housing regulation (p. 352)
• Appendices
• 1 Wheelchair users in European and English towns (p. 365)
• 2 Building users, user subgroups and building usage (p. 366)
• 3 Public buildings: toilet users with special needs (p. 374)
• 4 Comparative dimensions and areas of wc compartments (p. 379)
• 5 Lobbies to public toilets (p. 381)
• 6 Height criteria for building fixtures and fittings (p. 383)
• 7 Steps and stairs (p. 388)
• 8 Blind people (p. 390)
• 9 Tactile pavings (p. 392)
• 10 The Audit Commission's measure of accessible local authority buildings (p. 397)
• 11 The current (1997) Part M Building Regulation (p. 398)
• References and Bibliography
• Bibliography, subject headings (p. 399)
• References (p. 400)
• Bibliography (p. 406)
• Index (p. 421)