Time for unisex public toilets? Speak your mind!
Public Hygiene Lets Us Stay Human, or PHLUSH, works for better designed and more effectively managed public restrooms. We believe that toilet availability is a human right. Clean safe public restrooms help us remain healthy, walk rather than drive, and spend time away from home with family and friends. They serve people who are restroom challenged because of medical conditions or due to normal circumstances such as pregnancy, childhood or aging.
About this Site With reference to Portland, Oregon and other cities, this site catalogs best practices in public restroom design and management. Here’s where planners, architects, city managers, maintenance specialists and activists find practical tools. The PHLUSH Public Restroom Design Principles help guide decisions on facility types, management options and Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED). In the Take Action section are resources for advocacy so that citizens can speak out and take the lead when necessary. Form follows function. Yet the function of restrooms involves one of the least studied aspects of human behavior. Until function and user preference is fully taken into account, form will underperform, maintenance costs will spiral, and public restrooms will continue to be a major headache for public officials.
Join us! We meet on 3rd Mondays at 5:30 at Orchid Salon, 203 NW 2nd Ave. Please email us with your news, ideas and suggestions Comment on our blog Visit Old Town Chinatown where there are public restrooms.
Thank you, Supporters! Development of phlush.org has been partially supported through a small grant from the City of Portland, Oregon administered through the Alliance of Portland Neighborhood Business Associations. Our fiscal sponsor is Neighbors West-Northwest, the umbrella organization of which the Old Town Chinatown Neighborhood Association is a member. PHLUSH thanks all for their support.
