Over the course of the 1950s, coming out of World War 2 and going through the Korean War, and then further ahead through the Vietnam War and onward, European and American societies began seriously focusing on the issue of disabled-accessible spaces in the wake of all the casualties of war.
1950 年代歐美國家經歷二次大戰、韓戰和越戰後，社會開始正視因戰爭導致傷殘者的無障礙空間；1970 年代美國建築師麥可貝奈提出一個觀點，他認為，只要撤除環境中的障礙，每個人的官能都可以獲得提升。