Overview
- Offers solutions to fix a real, immediate lack of resources for the disabled community
- Proposes that disability research and activism must be grounded in a time and place
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Front Matter
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About this book
This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its positioning. Three insights inform the author’s approach. First, disability research, much like other urban or social issues, must be situated in a particular place. Second, access and inclusion forms a key part of both local and global planning issues. Third, a 21st century planning education should take access and inclusion into consideration by applying a disability lens to the empirical, methodological, and theoretical advances of the field. By bridging theory and practice, this book provides new insights on inclusive city planning and comparative urban theory. This book should be read as part of a larger struggle to define and assert access; it’s a story of how equity and justice are central themes in building the cities of the future and of today.
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About the author
Victor S. Pineda is a lecturer in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California Berkeley, USA. He is a two-time presidential appointee and a globally recognized leader on inclusive urban transformation. His teaching, research, and practice advances urban equity, access, and inclusion in global governance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Building the Inclusive City
Book Subtitle: Governance, Access, and the Urban Transformation of Dubai
Authors: Victor Santiago Pineda
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32988-4
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32987-7Published: 11 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32988-4Published: 28 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 169
Number of Illustrations: 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Disability Studies, Public Policy, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Middle Eastern Culture