Access to the environment
Subtitle: a series of reference documents on the design and development of site facilities to make them barrier free to the physically handicapped and disabled
By: prepared by the American Society of Landscape Architects Foundation.
Contributors: United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Policy Development and Research.; Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board.
Series: HUD-PDR ; 163-1 through HUD-PDR ; 163-3
Publisher: Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Published: 1977
Place of publication: [Washington]
Language: eng
Subjects: Barrier-free design.; Landscape architecture.; People with disabilities.
Notes: Issued July 1977.

Prepared under contract (H-2002-R) with the Office of Policy Development and Research, Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, and Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board.

Bibliography: Appendix B.
Table of contents: value: v.1. Introduction, study backgroud, review of legislation standards and guidelines, cost-benefits of barrier free design, physical characteristics of the disabled and the handicapped and the design configurations of site elements.; value: v.2. Case studies of barrier free sites.; value: v.3. Domestic and international examples of legislation, guidelines, standards and criteria, bibliography, listing of people and organizations contacted, location of barrier free sites and glossary of terms.