Designer, historian, and Parsons professor davidgissen imagines an urban environment that would do more than grudgingly accommodate people who can’t see or walk or hear, or who have cognitive impairments. JDavidsonNYC writes
since 2007 and was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2002. He is the author of Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York.What would it be like to live in a city designed by, or at least with, the disabled? For starters, that metropolis’s main public library and its most august museum would not sit atop monumental staircases.
“A reduction in room temperature alone cannot always cool me, but the movement of air around my prosthesis” does, Gissen writes. When he gets hot indoors, he stands and starts moving quickly — exactly the opposite reaction most people have. Cars come with the ability to tailor temperature and airflow to the comfort levels of passengers sitting inches apart; office buildings, too, should make it possible for individual users to regulate their own small zones.
He also hopes to shift the metaphors we use to analyze and shape cities. Since at least the 18th century, urban planners have seen the city as a magnified representation of the human body, with quasi-animate systems of circulation and respiration, well-defined borders between public and private property, and distinct traffic and pedestrian zones, all arranged to manage the movement of people, vehicles, water, and money.
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