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Why the inevitability of disability means we should demand more from built environments

A Muslim woman wearing a hijab sat on a bench talking to a man in a wheelchair in an outdoor environment on a sunny day.

As a team of disabled people, Direct Access is of the view that urban infrastructure throughout history has favored the convenience of a wholly inaccurate and idealistic idea of what a society “should be”. Put simply, most human settlements are largely discriminatory toward people with disabilities, favoring the needs of the non-disabled individual instead of […]