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What A Profound Design Revolution Curb Cuts Were

VISUAL Posted: August 6, 2020 1:32 pm

“The need for accessible streets and sidewalks has utterly reshaped the contemporary cityscape, and the most profound change is also the most modest: the curb cuts that you’ll find now at many street corners in cities all over the world. The revolution in street corners seems like an obvious civic good now, a common‐sense softening at the edges of the built environment, a simple solution to buffer the concrete shape of a world built with homogenous users in mind. But it would not have happened without disability activists’ long, hard fight.” – Bloomberg

VISUAL Published: 08.05.20

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