A new book is hoping to answer the question of how cities can be designed to better serve all the people that live, work in and visit them.

Author David Gissen’s new book, “The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities and Landscapes beyond Access,” looks at one possible answer: Giving people with disabilities a leadership role in the design of urban spaces.

“One of the things I talk about in the book and one of the things that I think is really important is to really imagine how disabled people can be leaders in how cities are designed,” Gissen said on “Mornings On 1” Monday.

“I mean everything, from how we design the way water moves through cities and sewer systems to how we build buildings, to how we preserve buildings, to how we imagine public spaces. And a big thing, I think for me and a lot of people, is how do we create more spaces for rest.”

Gissen is a designer and architecture historian who survived pediatric bone cancer and had his leg amputated in the 1990s.

He told NY1 that he lived in New York City following his amputation, and while things have improved since then, there is still so much work to be done in making the city accessible to everyone.