Traduction de «bâtiment urbain » (Français → Anglais) :

Although specialized design services are growing in areas such as environmental design, aboriginal design, and green design, the DX formally recognizes eight design disciplines: architecture, which includes commercial and residential; fashion design, which includes clothing, jewellery, shoes, and accessories; graphic design and visual communications, which includes software interface, signage, 3D graphics, branding, video games and interactive media, and brochure, website, newspaper, and magazine design; industrial design, which includes furniture, fixtures, and equipment, both consumer and manufacturing; interior design, which includes residential and commercial building, exhibits, and set design; landscape design, which includes resi ...[+++]dential and commercial, including amusement parks; textile design, which includes fabrics, composition, and technology; and urban design, which includes towns, cities, transportation, and public use of space.

49. Stresses the importance of increasing the environmental performance of buildings with energy efficient house design (insulation, renewable energy use, green roofs, passive/active solar design, low energy houses etc.); supports the use of renewable as well as, if possible, locally available energy sources in the urban environment as well as water efficient building design (conservation and re-use of rainwater, rational flush of toilets, water efficient washing machines and dishwashers); further recommends benchmarking and EU-wide sharing of best practice in improving energy efficiency, the introduction of renewable energies and prog ...[+++]ress in sustainable urban construction in general;

42. Takes the view that in order to tackle the problem of climate change in cities, such as the lack of natural ventilation resulting in periods of very high temperatures and heavy air pollution, city-climate research should be included in urban planning in order to avoid the wind tunnel effect of high buildings; stresses that the loss of green spaces decreases natural ventilation;

I approve of the emphasis given in this report to a number of fundamental points: exchanging best practices and promoting the training of local players; controlling the growing volume of traffic and decoupling transport growth and GDP growth; encouraging people to save energy and improving the energy efficiency of buildings; making the implementation of sustainable urban management plans and sustainable urban transport plans compulsory for every urban area with more than 100 000 inhabitants; and, finally, proposing a per capita target in relation to green areas in new urban developments.

The main objective of the Action is to improve the quality of the urban building envelopes for the non-traditional housing stock, as well as to propose and disseminate new relevant methods and technical options to architects, engineers and planners.

- 3 - Urban development comprises a series of sub-sectors including services (environment, water supply, sanitation, health, education), construction (infrastructure, housing, specialized buildings), transport and telecommunications and information systems.