Traduction de «immeuble 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.

The favoured vision of high density, mixed use settlements with reuse of brownfield land and empty property, and planned expansions of urban areas rather than ad hoc urban sprawl, has been repeated in each Community policy document on the urban environment (see Annex 1).

The social, economic and environmental costs of leaving land and property unused in an urban area are high.

- develop incentives to encourage the reuse of brownfield land over the use of greenfield land, create national databases of brownfield land and set challenging targets for its reuse, and provide support for the reuse of empty properties in urban areas;

In fact some advanced building projects have demonstrated both commercial and residential buildings in cities do not require any external conventional source of energy (e.g. electricity, gas or fuels) if best technologies in EE and RES are combined.

The tax is not justified by any public interest objective and in any event is disproportionate to the aim, for instance, of preserving the aesthetic appearance of buildings: it is in fact applied irrespective of the size or appearance of the dish; whether it is visible of not; whether it is placed on a building or elsewhere -e.g. a garden-; whether the building is classified or not and without being assigned to improving the urban environment, etc.