Orientation and Mobility in the Urban Environment: A Form of 'Future Shock'
In: Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, Band 70, Heft 3, S. 89-93
ISSN: 1559-1476
The urban environment creates an atmosphere of external and internal pressures, which causes immeasurable stress in a blind person attempting independent travel. The transitory nature of relationships and landmarks in an urban environment, as well as the overabundance of sensory stimulation, produces a condition the author calls, "future shock."