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CityLab Daily: Warming Up to Universal Design
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Norwegian good: Hospitals tend to be utilitarian by design, and that often means they aren’t very welcoming. But that’s not the case for St. Olav’s Hospital in Trondheim, Norway, where natural light, private rooms, and lush gardens make patients feel a bit more at home. The hospital has become one of the country’s proudest laboratories of universal design, also known as inclusive design. The idea is that a place should be designed not just to accommodate, but to encourage the broadest spectrum of people and abilities.