Inclusive urban design: public toilets

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This text provides design guidance and policy direction for the provision and design of public toilets covering city-wide, district-level and site-specific principles. It highlights the role of urban design in reversing the trend of inadequate toilet provision, and sets out design guidelines.

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Full title :Inclusive urban design : public toilets

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Publication Date:2002

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Architectural Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2002

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Description:361 s

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ISBN:075065385X, 9780750653855
oclc:ocn474923205
Dewey Decimal:711.82Public Toilets

The problem of public toilets: introduction -- background and context; the historical development of toilet provision; the development of toilet provision within its legal context; conceptualizing the problem of public toilets. Differing perspectives on the problem: cultural attitudes -- separating or mixing; medical perspectives -- incontinence or incompetence; environmental aspects -- global and local. Groups -- users and providers; bottom-up and top-down -- user and provider groups; planning for toilets -- city-wide macro level; disability or disenablement?. Design and policy -- form follows function?: universal urban design -- meso level; toilet design considerations -- micro level; management, maintenance and finance; routeways to change.