I Spent A Day In A Wheelchair To See What It's Like To Be Disabled In A City

Each year, the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley bestows the Berkeley Prize(s) in order to promote the investigation of architecture as a social art. This year's theme was "The Architect and the Accessible City." The following essay, "A day in the life of a wheelchair user: navigating Lincoln," written by Sophia Bannert of the University of Lincoln, in the UK, took first prize. As Albert Einstein said: "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts". In o...