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Exclusive Transportation & Urban Systems

Mobility systems designed for cars ignore the needs of other road users such as bicycles or people in a wheelchair.

Urbanistic patterns that prioritise transportation only by car and exclude all the rest of the modes of transportation. This unethical design can also be seen in walkways that will not consider blind or low vision people or that will be too narrow for a wheelchair to pass by, and streets designed only for cars that will not provide space for bicycles.

Image by Robert Bye on Unsplash

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Brasil

Keywords:

Inclusive Design, Mobility, Exclusion by Design, Urban Planning

Submitted by

Alexandre de Oliveira Lot

Product & Industrial Designer

Brasil

Submitted on

January 26, 2024

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