Overview
- A useful guide book for architects, designers, educators, and stakeholders interested in creating inclusive built environments and services that anticipate all community needs
- Provides important data on challenges and responsibilities that restrict architects and educators wishing to achieve inclusion
- Presents case studies for university buildings of different eras since anti-discrimination legislation in the UK was introduced
- Fills a gap in literature on inclusive built environments from the perspective of architectural design
- Addresses both the theoretical and practical concepts of inclusive design
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Keywords
- Inclusive Building Design
- Approved Document M
- Disability rights movement
- Legislative impact on educational programmes
- Architectural design
- Inclusive design at University Of Kent
- Barriers to inclusive design
- Building accessibility for disabled
- Accessibility design
- Accessibility UK university buildings
Table of contents (8 chapters)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Itab Shuayb is a lecturer in the School of Architecture within the American University of Beirut in Lebanon.She is a Fullbright visiting scholar at the University of Connecticut- Storrs. She holds a PhD from the University of Kent in England.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inclusive University Built Environments
Book Subtitle: The Impact of Approved Document M for Architects, Designers, and Engineers
Authors: Itab Shuayb
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35861-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35860-0Published: 03 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35863-1Published: 03 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35861-7Published: 02 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 216
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
Topics: Building Construction and Design, Building Repair and Maintenance, Building Materials, Building Law