Korydon Smith

• Professor (Full) at University at Buffalo, State University of New York

The work of planners and architects in international contexts, especially in the Global South, often involves complex ethical dilemmas seldom addressed in architecture and planning literature. Virtuous motivations are insufficient to navigate the wicked ethical dilemmas encountered in some of these settings. We draw lessons from global health and a...

This contributed volume motivates and educates across fields about the major challenges in global health and the interdisciplinary strategies for solving them. Once the purview of public health, medicine, and nursing, global health is now an interdisciplinary endeavor that relies on expertise from anthropology to urban planning, economics to politi...

Rwanda, less than a generation removed from the 1994 Genocide, is experiencing a period of economic ascent and population growth. Its capital city, Kigali, is expected to triple in size within a generation, and positioned to become a premiere hub of commerce in central and eastern Africa. Amidst this optimism, however, is limited land and material...

In this chapter, three innovative houses of the early twentieth century are used to explore concepts of threshold as they relate to disability. These houses, all designed by leading architects of the time—the Darwin D. Martin House (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1904, Buffalo, NY, USA), the Villa Savoye (Le Corbusier, 1931, Poissy, France), and the Rietveld-...

With a motivation to make progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of sanitation for all by 2030, this paper proposes a framework to guide future research and evaluation of sanitation-for-All initiatives. The proposed framework builds upon the social model of disability, emphasizes a human rights perspective regarding sanita...

As the economic pressure to teach more students with fewer (and less costly) instructors has increased in higher education, the utilisation of non‐career teachers has become more prevalent. Design education has not escaped this phenomenon; non‐career teachers, such as graduate and undergraduate students or design practitioners, have become commonpl...

ResumenLa presente investigacion explora las relaciones entre la presencia en el hogar de ciertas condiciones discapacitantes especificas, la implicacion en actividades y las repercusiones para el diseno del entorno de las personas mayores. La muestra se compone de 234 residentes del estado estadounidense de Arkansas de entre 60 y 93 anos de edad,...

The present research explores the relationships between the presence of specific disabling conditions in the household, engagement in activities, and implications for the design of environments for older adults. The sample included 234 Arkansas residents between the ages of 60 and 93 that were contacted via random digit dialing. The instrument was...

Curiosity is often considered the foundation of learning. There is, however, little understanding of how (or if) pedagogy in higher education affects student curiosity, especially in the studio setting of architecture, interior design and landscape architecture. This article provides a brief cultural history of curiosity and its role in the design...

The study of architectural theory remains absent from many undergraduate design programs, or, if present, the structure of many curricula place “theory” as an autonomous, peripheral course. Theory, however, as it is in other disciplines, is the foundation of the discipline of architecture. To regain the importance and vitality of architectural theo...

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. Copyright © 2010 by The University of Arkansas Press. All rights reserved.