Active Exclusion

Elizabeth Guffey

Too often the concept “active transportation” produces environments that are not fully accessible. The extraordinary history of Roosevelt Island — home to the celebrated new campus of Cornell Tech and to a memorial to a disabled president who used a wheelchair — offers lessons both troubling and hopeful.

Too often the concept “active transportation” produces inaccessible environments. The history of Roosevelt Island, named for a disabled president, offers lessons both troubling and hopeful.

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  • Sandy Isenstadt
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  • Aaron Rothman
  • Barbara Penner

Sandy Isenstadt

Sandy Isenstadt is a professor of architectural history at the University of Delaware, and a columnist for Places.

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Naomi Stead

Naomi Stead is a columnist for Places. She is an architecture critic and Head of Architecture at Monash University.

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Aaron Rothman

Aaron Rothman is a columnist for Places. A monograph of his artwork, Signal Noise, is forthcoming from Radius Books.

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Barbara Penner

Barbara Penner is a columnist for Places. She is Professor of Architectural Humanities at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

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Future Archive features the online republication of significant works of 20th-century design criticism and history.

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