Lecture 7: Disability & The City

Question 1

Butler

Answer 1

(2011)

Disability is socially constructed

Question 2

Parr & Butler

Answer 2

(1999)

Everyday socia-spatial environments disable people

Question 3

Imrie

Answer 3

(1996)

designed for able-bodied and so restricts others

Question 4

Imrie and Kumar

Answer 4

(1998)

Blames urban planning as the urban environment is designed for the white, able-bodied, heterosexual man

Question 5

Chouinard

Answer 5

(2010)

Social injustice in the built environment, mythical normal bodiy

Question 6

Downey

Answer 6

(2013)

Disability is relative to society- disabled people and those who havent found their disabilities

Question 7

Latour

Answer 7

(1994)

We use tools and are socially bound to them

Question 8

Skelton & Valentine

Answer 8

(2003)

It is about difference, not disability

Question 9

Parr & Butler

Answer 9

(1999) Two Models of Deaf Society
Medical model = normalising hearing and curing deaf
Social Model = deafness is difference but not disadvantage

Question 10

O’Connell

Answer 10

(2012)

redesigning spaces and getting people looking at eachother

Question 11

Harold

Answer 11

(2013)

open up studies of urban design, service provision, and communication strategies

Question 12

Skelton and Valentine (2003)

Answer 12

Use of BSL is no issue when with deaf people, the environment and society they are within is what is disabling