Elsevier LTD, Oxford Goldsmith, S: Designing for the Disabled: The New Paradigm

In a 40-page annex to his book he sets out the terms that a new-style Part M regulation and its Approved Document might take, one that would cover alterations to existing buildings as well as new buildings. But architects and building control officers need not, he says, wait for new a legislation to apply new practical procedures to meet the requirements of the current Part M regulation; they can, as he advises, act positively now. This is a book which will oblige architects to rethink the methodology of designing for the disabled. It is a book that no practising architect, building control officer, local planning officer or access officer can afford to be without. It breaks the mould of prevailing design-for-the-disabled practices and procedures. It indicts current 'for the disabled' access legislation, and introduces the concept of architectural disability.