Weeks 10 to 12

Question 1

T or F, an individual is only disabled if the environment doesnt accommodate their body

Answer 1

T

Question 2

Give a description on the history of planning for people with disabilities.

Answer 2

• Disability rights 50s to 60s (deinstituionalization; Canadian Association for Community Living)
• Disability legislation 70s to 80s (UN Declaration on rights for disabled persons)
• Disability studies 90s to 2000s.

Question 3

Explain the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Integrated accessibility standards regulation (IASR)

Answer 3

• Became a law on 6/13, 2005
• develop implement, and enforce accessibility standards to achieve accessible province by 2025
• IASR demands that new/redeveloped public spaces much comply w/ accessibility requirements

Question 4

Where is the Urban Braille System implemented, and what can it help identify?

Answer 4

Hamilton

identify: Directional changes; hierarchy of pathways; entrances.

Question 5

What differentiates place and space?

Answer 5

Place has meaning, and space is spatial space with boundary

Question 6

How are 5 ways for people to feel connected to a place

Answer 6

• relationship to location (i.e. aboriginals who worship their land spirit)
• ownership (historical, i.e. farmers for generations)
• supports identity
• strong social connections
• limited options

Question 7

Explain LULU

Answer 7

-Local Unwanted Land Use (human and public service facilities; risky facilities)

Question 8

Expand the acronyms:
NIMBY
NIABY
NOPE
BANANA  
CAVEs

Answer 8

not in my backyard
not on planet Earth
build absolutely nothing anywhere
citizens against virtually everything

Question 9

What are the 5 strategies when responding LULU?

Answer 9

• Compensation
• Communication
• Empowering affected parties
• Consensus building
• Institutional change

Question 10

What are the 8 levels of the public participation ladder?

Answer 10

• non-participation (manipulation, therapy)
• tokenism (informing, consultation, placation)
• citizen power (partnership, delegated power, citizen control)

Question 11

What are the 3 benefits of participatory planning?

Answer 11

• self determination
• strengthens sense of community
• facilitates long-term consensus and decision making/support