What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World

by Sara Hendren

Book Overview

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHub

A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all.

Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets--nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073522000X
• ISBN13: 9780735220003
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"