tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post1631013813477801774..comments2023-03-24T21:49:49.118-04:00Comments on Dubious Prospects: Misattribution of sincerityGraydonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-63372914394115514802020-12-10T17:51:08.997-05:002020-12-10T17:51:08.997-05:00I'm inclined to disagree that it's politic...I'm inclined to disagree that it's political death to add Universal design, in my experience most people accept that accommodation is required in new builds etc. We all have family members who are aging, and are aging ourselves (a truism). <br /><br />On top of that persons with disabilities fit somewhat into the notion of 'deserving', especially when said disability was arbormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05501087479028638982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-82543247464184491052020-12-08T21:02:24.819-05:002020-12-08T21:02:24.819-05:00+arborman
Confusion between cost and value is a r...+arborman<br /><br />Confusion between cost and value is a real problem, yeah. (as is a complete lack of residential market; no one buys enough to know what they're buying.)<br /><br />Tearing down all the old buildings is about what climate change is going to compel us to do; nothing's been built for the wind or the rain we're going to get. (This is, I think, much of why you just Graydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-16221508532180474032020-12-08T13:21:14.356-05:002020-12-08T13:21:14.356-05:00Cars and car driving are clearly seen by the young...Cars and car driving are clearly seen by the young as a mark of adulthood. My 15 year old is beside himself with anticipation at the prospect of driving, and talks at length about his future vehicle - this despite my constant talk about the actual cost/utility of a vehicle.<br /><br />The legal age to drink is another highly regarded milestone, largely the ongoing blowback from out culture'sarbormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05501087479028638982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-12244221933096306992020-12-07T11:51:14.786-05:002020-12-07T11:51:14.786-05:00+James
It's generally very difficult to get b...+James<br /><br />It's generally very difficult to get building trades to change; inherently conservative (we know what doesn't fall down, why change it?), and lately the work/capital separation is extreme, so the folks doing the building are even less willing to change how they do things; they can't afford new tools and methods.<br /><br />(Ramps in particular have lousy industrial Graydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-84404548452566729692020-12-05T16:13:40.656-05:002020-12-05T16:13:40.656-05:00Per Flanders & Swann: "'I just bought...Per Flanders & Swann: "'I just bought a Mini Super.' 'What's a Mini Super?' 'Yes, I've got one in my boot.'".<br /><br />Up to about the 1950s or so, cars as such (rather than the type of car) were a mark of status, but we have long since reached the point at which many relatively poor people drive cheap second-hand cars. However, the 50s are when theJameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08260408210075989094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-65037164174370482412020-12-05T12:00:01.451-05:002020-12-05T12:00:01.451-05:00+James --
It's becoming a thing to prove you&...+James --<br /><br />It's becoming a thing to prove you're not weak by using the stairs. Band-forming primate; we'll do just about anything as a status display. (E.g., consumption of live goldfish.)<br /><br />Stairs are more compact than a useful ramp; this is why they came in for tenements and such no later than the Roman Republic and have persisted that way ever since. It's Graydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-73699506132458670022020-12-05T07:56:03.455-05:002020-12-05T07:56:03.455-05:00People's attitudes towards ramps and stairs ar...People's attitudes towards ramps and stairs are, put mildly, irrational. Even if you don't have a disability, the stairs are among the most dangerous places in a typical house. And where you can have a ramp without switchbacks, stairs are not only a potential barrier and more dangerous, but actually slower: there is no benefit to having a drop (as the Toronto Eaton Centre does in several Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08260408210075989094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-24488767818366592312020-12-04T19:01:11.937-05:002020-12-04T19:01:11.937-05:00+Arborman
I think I could condense my whole point ...+Arborman<br />I think I could condense my whole point into "make the absence of Universal Design an inexcusable fault; this will work better than asking for compassion".<br /><br />The current ... angle of narrative, call it, has anybody who is in some sense not who the building designer was thinking of required to engage in some sort of special pleading as a supplicant, which is both Graydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-25828695833606715452020-12-04T13:09:38.546-05:002020-12-04T13:09:38.546-05:00The notion of 'Universal Design' has been ...The notion of 'Universal Design' has been around for awhile. I spent some time working for a disability advocacy organization a couple of decades ago pushing for such changes to be incorporated into the building code in BC (with limited success).<br /><br />Lots of it is fairly obvious. Instead of building steps and a ramp into the store, just build at grade and/or just have a ramp. arbormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05501087479028638982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-12937730093253798872020-11-30T15:18:09.810-05:002020-11-30T15:18:09.810-05:00The speed of changing attitudes towards LGB people...The speed of changing attitudes towards LGB people (less T so far unfortunately) over the last ten to twenty years, even in fairly conservative areas, has been really remarkable. Once the idea of normalization got started it crystallized very rapidly, to the point that current teenagers can barely even imagine that within their own lifetimes gay marriage was almost unthinkable.* I think you'Slybrarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13892824713025368555noreply@blogger.com