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Accessible cities

7 August 2023

  • Dorothy Dunn

    I had no idea how inaccessible urban Britain is – until I faced it in a wheelchair

    Dorothy Dunn
    A period confronting cracked, perilous pavements brought into sharp relief the barriers society creates for disabled people, says freelance journalist Dorothy Dunn

27 February 2020

  • Guide Dogs Members Prepare Float Ahead Of Mardi Gras Debut<br>SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 14: Nicole Barakat, Artist Educator MCA works on the Guide Dogs NSW/ACT and MCA Mardi Gras float entitled, Feel the Love on February 14, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Gulliver, a fibre-glass Labrador, has toured Australia for years promoting services provided by Guide Dogs for people who have low vision or are vision impaired. Standing 4.3m tall and weighing 690kg, Gulliver will lead a group representing Guide Dogs for the first time in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade on Saturday 29 February. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

    'It’s a game changer': a 690kg, cloak-wearing guide dog is making its Mardi Gras debut

    This year audio describers, and one very large guide dog, are aiming to enhance the vision-impaired experience of the Sydney parade

28 May 2019

  • Mayor of Breda. Breda in the Netherlands is the current 2019 European accessible city, accessible to people in wheelchairs/with disabilities

    ‘People aren’t disabled, their city is’: inside Europe’s most accessible city

    From flattened cobbles to threshold ramps, the Dutch city of Breda has much to teach its neighbours

6 February 2019

  • As a parent or person with mobility issues, it is easy to view transport networks as simply impossible to negotiate.

    Will the death of Malaysia Goodson finally lead to accessible city transport?

    Last week, a mother died after falling down a set of subway steps carrying a baby buggy. Will it finally convince cities to improve access to transport?

14 February 2018

  • The Sweetwater Spectrum community is housing project for adults with autism in Sonoma, near San Francisco.

    What would a truly disabled-accessible city look like?

    Most cities are utterly unfriendly to people with disabilities – but with almost one billion estimated to be urban-dwellers by 2050, a few cities are undergoing a remarkable shift

22 September 2017

  • A person in a wheelchair prepares to board the London Underground

    'I feel like a second-class citizen': readers on navigating cities with a disability

    We asked readers with a disability to share their experiences – good and bad. Their responses show the many ways people can be shut out of their communities

21 September 2017

  • Paris metro regular v non-ramp wheelchair access

    Access denied: wheelchair metro maps versus everyone else's

    From Paris to New York, we’ve matched metro maps against versions that only include fully accessible stations. The results are discouraging

20 September 2017

  • A man in wheelchair at a bus stop in London.

    Accessing cities with a disability: what have your experiences been?

  • Frances Ryan in Chester, named Europe’s most accessible city. The entire two-mile Roman, Saxon and medieval wall is impressively accessible. All photographs: Rebecca Lupton for the Guardian

    Roman holiday: how Chester became the most accessible city in Europe

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