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The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design at The State University of New York, University at Buffalo has produced the booklet Visit-ability: an Approach to Universal Design in Housing.
It offers:
- A complete overview of Visit-ability requirements;
- An explanation of the differences between visit-ability, accessible housing, and universal design;
- A critiques of current housing design such as New Urbanism;
- An analysis of cost (less than 1 percent of total construction costs for the dwelling unit part);
- Case studies; and
- Strategies for advocating visit-ability in local projects.
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