Making space for disability in eco-homes and eco-communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4633652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amita Bhakta (0000-0002-1369-1600, Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) School of Civil and Building Engineering Loughborough University Loughborough Leicestershire LE11 3TU), Jenny Pickerill (0000-0002-2070-705X, Department of Geography University of Sheffield Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 1TN) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 182 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 406-417 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/geoj.12157 |
| OpenAlex | W1639516039 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 34 |
There is continued failure to build homes for diverse and disabled occupancy. We use three eco-communities inEngland to explore how their eco-houses and wider community spaces accommodate the complex disability of hypotonic cerebral palsy. Using site visits, video footage, spatial mapping, field diary observations, surveys and interviews, this paper argues that little attention has been paid to making eco-communities and eco-houses accessible. There are, we argue, three useful and productive ways to interrogate accessibility in eco-communities, through understandings of legislation, barriers and mobility. These have three significant consequences for eco-communities and disabled access: ecological living as practised by these eco-communities relies upon particular bodily capacities, and thus excludes many disabled people; disabled access was only considered in relation to the house and its thresholds, not to the much broader space of the home; and eco-communities need to be, and would benefit from being, spaces of diverse interaction
Cerebral palsy · Disabled people · Geography · Legislation · Political science · Relation (database · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives · Computer Science · Law · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Urban Transport and Accessibility
Home
Volatile Bodies
Mobility Disability and the Urban Built Environment
Real Bodies
Intersecting Voices
Bodies
Creating Low Carbon Communities
The home as a site for long-term care
Social contacts as a possible mechanism behind the relation between green space and health
Bodies, building and bricks
Gender, Identity and Place
Housing Quality and the Provision of Accessible Homes
Negotiating difference
Disability, embodiment and the meaning of the home
Disabled People and Housing
The design professions and the built environment
Shared Space and the Post-politics of Environmental Change
The Normality of Doing Things Differently
Blood, brain and bones’
Not Everyone Has (the) Balls
Bodies and Spaces
Architects' Conceptions of the Human Body
Towards an Agenda for Post-carbon Cities
Justice and the Spatial Imagination
Mobility Disability
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |