The architecture of disability: buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access

"The architecture of disability: buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access." Visual Studies, 39(1-2), pp. 261–262

Notes

1 Gissen cites historians Susan Schweik and Tobin Siebers to trace the emergence of the City Beautiful movement in Chicago around the time of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, which is where and when US’s ugly laws also emerge. Gissen follows Schweik and Siebers to argue that this co-emergence is not coincidental, but the ugly laws embodies the white supremacy of urban beautification. For example, ugly laws that “made illegal the act of begging” by visibly disabled people in public spaces (Gissen 2022, 36) correspond with the disciplining of urban nature and spaces through neoclassical architecture of the City Beautiful.