Elaina Richards > Recent Status Updates

The metric for relative risk of car accidents is measured by deaths / vehicles miles travelled rather than deaths / population because they don’t see themselves as public health they see themselves as roadway efficiency :(

“The cost of parking is hidden in higher prices for everything else”

“…defined design in terms of limited resources, reminding disabled people at every turn that they faced an uphill path to inclusion, and shying away from any kind of design that might be seen as excessively accommodating” -on the contributions of Rusk and Nugent to the language and scope of accessible design

“Therapy routines that emphasized adaptation to existing technologies acknowledged that disability was defined in part by the built environment…Rusk suggested, disabled people could use available materials to navigate daily lives in an inaccessible society. Indeed, he argued doing so was a crucial part of their psychological rehabilitation”

“the piecemeal allocation of individual prosthetics (including “prosthetic” cars and houses), without attention to public aspects such as streets, sidewalks, or transportation, created a similar dynamic of “deserving and undeserving” citizenship between disabled veterans and the disabled population as a whole.”

y’all… i’m never finishing this book like. I get the point. he saw the west as a hitchhiker, fetishized a Mexican wife, romanticized a working class life and lived to tell the tale. not only does it not age well, I think it was pretentious even for its time.