How A California City’s Sidewalks Were Redesigned for Wheelchairs
The tale of how Berkeley , California , first scram wheelchair - approachable pavement in the 1970s is an unlikely mixture of public protest , anti - war sentiment , and the grassroots potential difference of urban provision for the people , by the people . compose forBoom , Bess Williamson explicate how the city began to redesign itself for everyone to pilot . A story of Disability Rights , although seldom included in news report of the Sixties in Berkeley , runs alongside the account of protest against University of California policy , the War in Vietnam , and the formation in general ....