Sight line - designing better streets for people with low vision
Document Status
Archived
Supplement
Core Supplement
Abstract
Provides a series of recommendations based on a review of how eight blind and partially sighted people navigate their local streets. Includes a new mapping technique to communicate how residual sight users, long cane users and guide dog users use a combination of sound, touch, and memory to get around independently and safely.
Author
Atkin, R.
History
This document has been archived by the original publisher. Carried out by Ross Atkin of the Helen Hamlyn Centre, Royal College of Art.
Subjects
- Planning and development
- General design information
- Design
- Provision for disabled people
- Urban planning
- Strategic planning
- Special subject areas
Publisher History
Now defunct, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment was the government's advisor on architecture, urban design and public space. They replaced the Royal Fine Art Commission in 1999. In April 2011, the Design Council and CABE joined to become one organisation.
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