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• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Universal design, buildings and architects
• The bottom-up route to universal design
• The Part M building regulation
• Alterations to existing buildings
• Populations of building users
• The path to universal design: public buildings
• New housing
• 2 Building users: mobility equipment
• Commentary
• Ambulant disabled people’s aids
• Wheelchairs
• Electric scooters
• Child pushchairs
• 3 Anthropometrics
• Commentary
• Ambulant people
• Wheelchair users
• Seated women
• 4 Heights of fixtures and fittings
• Commentary
• Doors and windows
• Mirrors
• Wcs and urinals
• Wash basins and hand dryers
• Lift controls
• Shelves
• Work surfaces and tables
• Coded access panels
• Socket outlets
• 5 Horizontal circulation
• Commentary
• Passing spaces
• Straight approaches through openings
• Doors and door openings
• Turning to pass through door openings
• Entrance lobbies and internal lobbies
• Wheelchair users, movement through door openings
• Housing, passageway spaces
• Thresholds
• 6 Vertical circulation
• Commentary
• Steps and stairs
• Handrails
• Ramps
• Entrances to buildings
• Lifts
• Escalators
• Refuge spaces
• 7 Sanitary facilities
• Commentary
• Wc facilities: general provision
• Transfers to and from wc
• Wc facilities: limited wheelchair access
• Wc facilities: wheelchair-accessible provision
• Cloakroom lobbies
• Wash basins
• Baths and bathrooms
• Shower rooms
• Urinals
• 8 Tiered seating, hotel guestrooms, car parking
• Commentary
• Tiered seating and wheelchair spaces
• Hotel guestrooms
• Car parking spaces
• 9 Housing
• Commentary
• Ground floor flats
• Houses to Part M standard
• Lifetime Homes
• Two-storey wheelchair houses
• References
• Bibliography
• Index