Disability and Public Space

This is a draft reading list for a proposed graduate module on Disability, Law and Policy at Oxford. As ever, there are far more readings to include, if you have suggestions or comments, please do get in touch, this is an area of research that I am still developing. If there are any readings here you cannot access, please do let me know.

Inclusive Governance

• Malloy, R. P. (2017). Land Use Regulation, Disability, and Aging in Place. Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice, 9(2), 198-222.

• INU – Charter of Public Space (2013)

• Public London Charter (2021)

• DIAUD/ CBM (2016). The Inclusion Imperative: Towards Disability-inclusive and Accessible Urban Development Key Recommendations for an Inclusive Urban Agenda

• Chloe Johnson, “Council ‘used pandemic as Trojan horse for city centre access changes’”, 2021.

Access to Buildings

Building Regulations 2010/2214

• Access to and use of buildings, Approved Document M (2015, 2016)

• Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) (Disabled Access) Bill 2017 (HL Bill 9)
• House of Commons Library, Disabled access to historic and listed buildings, SN/SP/3007 (2013).
• House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee – Building for Equality: Disability and the Built Environment (2018, CM 9527)

• Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Government Response to the Report of the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee Building for Equality: Disability and the Built Environment, 2018

Access to Public Space and Mobility

• Equality Act 1999, section 20, Schedule 2, para 2(2)

• FirstGroup Plc v Paulley [2017] UKSC 4

• Lawson, A., & Orchard, M. (2021), “The Anticipatory Reasonable Adjustment Duty: Removing the Blockages?” The Cambridge Law Journal, 80(2), 308-337.

• House of Commons Library, Access to transport for disabled people, Research Briefing 11 July 2022 by Dr Roger Tyers, Lewis Pickett, Siobhan Wilson

• Malloy, R. P., Spencer, S., & Crane, S. (2017). Land Use Law and Sidewalk Requirements Under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal, 403-429.

• Rannila, P., & Mitchell, D. (2016). Syracuse, sidewalks, and snow: the slippery realities of public space. Urban Geography, 37(7), 1070-1090.

Children and Young People

• The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Articles 23, 31

• General comment No. 9 (2006) The rights of children with disabilities

• Van Melik, R., & Althuizen, N. (2022). Inclusive play policies: Disabled children and their access to dutch playgrounds. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 113(2), 117-130.

• Madriaga, M. (2010). ‘I avoid pubs and the student union like the plague’: Students with Asperger syndrome and their negotiation of university spaces. Children’s Geographies, 8(1), 39-50.

Optional

Bolt Burdon Kemp, Accessible Court Rooms