Title & Author:

Blindness and the multi-sensorial city / Patrick Devlieger [and others] (eds.).

Publication:

Antwerp : Garant, ©2006.

Description:

372 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Notes:
Title in Braille on cover.
"This book resulted from concrete activities in and around the city of Leuven (Belgium) on the occasion of the 2003 European Year of Persons with a Disability"--Page 4 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Building bridges -- Blindness/city : a disability dialectic / Patrick Devlieger and Hubert Froyen -- Local accessibility policy / Kristel Wildiers, Gwendolien Sabbe, and Heidi Vander Poorten -- Disability, the individual and the city -- Reifying personal to public : envisioning a synergetic disability praxis / Vandana Chaudhry and Meenu Bhambhani -- Disability and the open city / Brendan Gleeson -- Mobility and orientation -- Having a visual impairment while moving through town / Gerlinde Bellefroid -- Will GPS finally bring the solution to wayfinding in cities? / Jan Engelen and Gerrit Van den Breede -- Multi-sensory design -- Multi-sensory design in the historic environment / Peter Howell and Julia Ionides -- The non-careful sight / Marta Dischinger -- More than meets the eye / Seema Malik -- Architecture in the digital era / Vinko Penezic and Kresimir Rogina -- Tactility and aesthetics -- Spatial textures : place, touch and praesentia / Kevin Hetherington -- Artful touching and thinking : aesthetic appreciation of blind individuals / Karin De Coster and Gerrit Loots.
Enhancing tourism through non-visual competence -- Traveling without sightseeing : exploring alternative modes of cross cultural engagement / Constance Classen -- Hearing, smelling, touching and moving as an alternative way of beholding : a practical survey of historic monuments and sites in the city of Leuven / David Mellaerts -- Education and experimentation -- An eclectic cross-cultural model of empowerment vis-a-vis visual disability / Vandana Chaudhry -- "Look at it my way" : visually impaired people's perspectives on design education and historic European cities / Paul Sullivan, John Wakefield, and Claire Wickham -- Towards a method of analyzing and designing spaces -- Designing in the dark : an experimental design workshop / Hubert Froyen -- Analysing spaces in the city of Leuven : the synergy between designers and users / Frank Renders and Harry Viaene.

ISBN:

9044117394
9789044117394

Subject:

People with visual disabilities Orientation and mobility.
People with visual disabilities Services for.
City planning.
Barrier-free design.
Architectural Accessibility
Personnes handicapées visuelles Orientation et mobilité.
Personnes handicapées visuelles Services.
Accessibilité aux personnes handicapées.
barrier-free design.

Form/genre:

Braille.
Optical disks.
Compact discs.

Added entries:

Devlieger, Patrick.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253312
Call No.: BIB 183042
Status: Available