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A new edition of the classic and innovative resource that relies on personal lived experience to guide accessible design

In 1979, University of California architecture professors Raymond Lifchez and Barbara Winslow published this account of ongoing collaborations with members of a robust disability community in Berkeley, California. In the first attempt by architects to know disabled people and to design from their perspective, they employed an empathetic approach that differed from typical accessible design guidelines.

Instead of presenting architectural designs to resolve existing barriers, Design for Independent Living turns to disabled people to tell their own stories through interviews and photographs of their own homes, workplaces, and lives in public. The disabled informants of the project were members of the Independent Living movement—the activists who shaped the disability rights movement in the late twentieth century in the United States—and their contributions demonstrate the necessity of liberating design from ableist, restrictive ways of thinking about personal and public life.

Now with a new foreword by three scholars of design and disability history, Design for Independent Living is an indispensable resource for architecture and design experts who seek a socially informed practice that looks to the people most affected by design to understand its potentials and its shortcomings.

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This collection profiles women in American politics who have demonstrated true leadership over the past 150 years—though this leadership has not always been recognized as such. These women have defied stereotypical caricatures and modeled effective ways to lead, even when they have not enjoyed formal access to voting or party politics, lost campaigns, or suffered scrutiny and harassment as public figures. Many of them have championed people and causes that their male counterparts have neglected, lending their lived experiences as women to fight for political action for underrepresented groups, and showing time and again that the personal really is political. Here we assess their political careers, not in terms of wins and losses, but rather in their ability to negotiate identity politics and shift conventional rules about how politicians lead. 

This collection profiles such varied women as Jeannette Rankin, Shirley Chrisholm, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, Stacy Abrams, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, among others. Whether they have recast gendered meanings around political ambition, broadened access to the political process, privileged principles over party loyalty, or prioritized issues over incumbency, each woman profiled here has wisdom to impart to new generations of American women who aspire to run for office or be involved in American politics.