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	Built environment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The phrase built environment refers to the manmade surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places.
		In landscape architecture, the built environment is identified as opposed to the natural environment, with the recognition that places like Central Park may have the look, feel, and nourishing quality of natural surroundings while being completely artificial and "built", thus blurring the line between the two.
		In urban planning, the phrase connotes the idea that a large percentage of the human environment is manmade, and these artificial surroundings are so extensive and cohesive that they function as organisms in the consumption of resources, disposal of wastes, and facilitation of productive enterprise within its bounds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Built_environment (173 words)

	Natural environment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In its purest sense, it is thus an environment that is not the result of human activity or intervention.
		For some, there is a difficulty with the term "natural environment" in that nearly all environments have been directly or indirectly influenced by humans at some point in time.
		It is the common understanding of natural environment that underlies environmentalism—a broad political, social, and philosophical movement that advocates various actions and policies in the interest of protecting what nature remains in the natural environment, or restoring or expanding the role of nature in this environment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Natural_environment (348 words)

	NIH Guide: OBESITY AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
		Research on the connections between the built environment and health has shown that the burden of illness has been greater on lower socioeconomic strata and minority/vulnerable populations (including persons who have impaired mobility and use assistive devices such as wheelchairs and lower limb prostheses).
		Though the built environment is one of our most important habitats, current research in the area has focused mainly on the challenges of balanced transportation (e.g., roads, highways, infrastructure, public transportation), urban sprawl, air pollution due to increased traffic, and the diminishing natural environment.
		To understand the wide variety of issues relating to the built environment and obesity, studies that combine qualitative and quantitative methodologies are strongly encouraged.
	grants.nih.gov /grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-04-003.html (5668 words)

	Built Environment, Bristol UWE - Cities Research Centre
		In all aspects of its work, the Centre is committed to effective knowledge transfer, linking theory and practice, producing policy relevant research and also contributing to the theoretical development that is needed to underpin policy interventions and to understand their impact.
		The research programme of the Centre is built around urban and regional change and the processes through which change is planned, implemented and evaluated.
		Over 2004-5, it ran an ESRC funded seminar series on Public Accountability in the New Institutional Environment and is now carrying out an ESRC funded study, with the University of Birmingham, of the democratic anchorage of governance networks in three European countries.
	www.built-environment.uwe.ac.uk /research/cities (815 words)

	Sp04 TSC Newsletter:Built Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, it is difficult to determine whether altering the built environment by making it more "walkable" prompts people to change their travel habits, especially when it comes to walking.
		These concerns have recently become the backdrop for a wider discussion of how the built environment can make it more appealing and convenient for individuals to be physically active to counteract less salutary changes in living patterns, such as larger portions of food, higher calorie foods and reduced everyday routine physical activity.
		The connection between physical activity and the built environment isn't as obvious, but available data, combined with common sense, suggests that more compact, mixed land use areas that are easily traversable on foot could make it easier for people to incorporate physical activity into their routines.
	www.tsc.berkeley.edu /html/newsletter/spring04/planning.html (2055 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| E-learning \| Learning through the built environment
		'Learning through the Built Environment, A Regional Perspective', hosted by The Architecture Centre in Bristol in partnership with CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment), was a one-day seminar focusing on child and young people-centred approaches to the built environment, empowering and challenging them to reflect and change their local communities.
		Importantly the outcomes of educational and training projects on the built environment are not easily quantifiable; they have a greater legacy than simply the time devoted to them.
		The city and the built environment, how it is designed and planned, what it affords - positive and negative experiences - is as important as ever.
	education.guardian.co.uk /elearning/story/0,10577,1170449,00.html (975 words)

	Architecture article - Architecture built environment science designing buildings town planning - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Architecture is a communicative art that situates human activity within a horizon of possibilities, the art and science of designing buildings.
		A wider definition would include within its scope the design of the total built environment, from the macrolevel of town planning, urban design, and landscape architecture to the microlevel of furniture and product design.
		General civil construction such as roads and bridges began to be built.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Architecture (1729 words)

	Built Environment - Curriculum Context
		It was built as a gaol and was the first permanent building in the colony.
		It was built between 1868 and 1870 and is the only convict built Town Hall in Australia.
		The purpose built tower was completed in time for the bells to ring in the new Millennium.
	www.eddept.wa.edu.au /cmis/eval/curriculum/pathfinders/ybe (464 words)

	The Prevention Institute: The Built Environment and Health: Program Profiles
		There is growing recognition that the built environment -- the man-made physical structures and infrastructure of communities -- has an impact on our health.
		To facilitate public health's participation, there is a need for concrete examples that demonstrate the importance of the built environment as well as illustrate potential roles for public health.
		Program profiles were developed to illustrate the influence of the built environment on health or health behaviors and are intended to provide health practitioners with a tool to demonstrate how changes to the built environment can positively influence health and health behaviors in low-income communities.
	www.preventioninstitute.org /builtenv.html (596 words)

	Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: The School of the Built Environment
		The School of the Built Environment offers an almost unique range of educational opportunities spanning the diverse range of professions involved in the planning, design, construction and development of our environment and infrastructure.
		The School has an excellent international and national research reputation, as the leading Built Environment research institution in Scotland and one of the top in the UK.
		The courses are designed to meet the demands of the construction industry and built environment professions, both nationally and internationally.
	www.sbe.hw.ac.uk (296 words)

	Built Environment (BE) - DRCPT
		The built environment are those aspects of our environment that are human modified such as homes, schools, workplaces, parks, industrial areas, farms, roads and highways.
		The challenges related to the built environment pertain to transportation, urban sprawl, air pollution, city planning, and diminishing natural resources.
		Improving public health aspects of the built environment that would ultimately help decrease obesity, cardiovascular disease, and asthma while improve mental health are potential benefits of living in sustainable communities.
	www.niehs.nih.gov /drcpt/be/home.htm (258 words)

	Milwaukee Green Map: Built Environment
		Like similar communities in Greenbelt, MD and Greenhills, OH, the 366 original Greendale structures are small, one-bedroom homes built of concrete.
		Intended to provide a pleasing respite from urban congestion and stimulate community life, the plan for Greendale includes walking paths through shared "backyard" greenspaces, abundant trees, a non-gridded streetscape, and proximity to library, grocery and post office.
		Built in 1873, still in use but covered in 1979.
	www.wisconline.com /greenmap/milwaukee/sites/built.html (274 words)

	An Introduction to Biophilia and the Built Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edward O. Wilson in 1984, biophilia is the study of the human response to the natural environment and the relationship between humans and natural systems, which is, in its simplest form, a sense of place.
		The natural environment includes the ancestral environment described above as well as such natural systems as the cyclical dynamics of daylight, weather, and temperature, and the annual changes of seasons and the movement of the sun.
		Along with a greater connection between the interior and surrounding natural environment, some “successful” projects we’ve examined so far boast attributes similar to those that would have enhanced our ancestors’ chances for survival: access to water, complexity and order, enticement, peril, and the duality of prospect and refuge.
	www.rmi.org /sitepages/pid1079.php (1892 words)

	Arcology and Arcosanti: Towards a Sustainable Built Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Since 1970 a prototype has been constructed at Arcosanti in the central Arizona desert to test the validity of the arcology model exploring such issues as the intensification in the use of space, higher residential densities, centralization, compactness, the integration of land uses, and self-containment of habitat.
		Throughout the 20th century the switch from a spread out pattern of human settlement to one of concentration in urban centers has spawned a built environment that has transformed the natural environment and contributed, in large part, to the current environmental crisis.
		It was provided a global definition by the Brundtland Commission report (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987) as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
	egj.lib.uidaho.edu /egj18/grierson1.html (5593 words)

	University of Westminster London - School of Architecture and the Built Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We are a major player on the national scene in built environment education.
		The School of Architecture and the Built Environment provides a full range of programmes in the built environment disciplines.
		The School of Architecture and the Built Environment is located at the University of Westminster's Marylebone Campus, opposite Baker Street tube station in central London.
	www.wmin.ac.uk /sabe/page-0 (337 words)

	Center for the Built Environment Home Page
		CUBE brings together educators with community partners to effect change that will lead to a quality built and natural environment, one and interdependent.
		Children will learn to value the built environment while improving their problem-solving and social skills.
		This means cities that work for adults and children; buildings and spaces that are healthy and aesthetically pleasing; streetscapes and landscapes that reach to the future while celebrating the past.
	www.cubekc.org (87 words)

	Childrens' Health and the Built Environment - Designing and Building Healthy Places, CDC
		At a time when obesity and diabetes are rising among children, when asthma continues to be highly prevalent, and when conditions such as attention deficit disorder may be on the rise, it is crucial to seek, understand, and implement environmental design solutions that might help with these health challenges.
		When new schools are built at a long distance from where families live, then children need to be driven to school, depriving them of an opportunity for physical activity and contributing to air pollution and risk for automobile crashes.
		Additional information on children’s health and the built environment as well as other related topics can be found in the Additional Resources section.
	www.cdc.gov /healthyplaces/healthtopics/children.htm (700 words)

	Built Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A discussion of 'built environment', a broad discipline in which building and surveying are usually included.
		This Centre is one of 24 subject centres established in 2000 under the UK Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) to support the sharing of innovation and good practices in learning and teaching including the use, where appropriate, of communications and information technolology (C&IT).
		The project began in mid 1997 and aims to produce a kit of teaching material for built environment education, delivered across the Internet.
	www.city.londonmet.ac.uk /deliberations/Subjects/building (601 words)

	EcoIQ Conserving the Built Environment Home Page
		Our online store, The EcoOutlet, provides conserving the built environment related books, articles and reports, and published speeches to serve the educational, training, and professional development needs of individuals, schools, teachers, libraries, and other organizations.
		Our books cover conserving the urban built environment, the federal role in fostering disaster recovery and disaster-resistant communities, adaptive reuse, and more.
		The EcoGateway sections and pages related to conserving the built environment may be accessed here.
	www.ecoiq.com /builtenvironment (674 words)

	Directory of Built Environment Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		ET Environmental Manager of the Year The role of an environmental manager is continuing to increase in both prominence and importance as companies and organisations are becoming increasingly aware of their environmental responsibilities, and the importance of ensuring an improved environmental performance.
		Bromley's Environment Awards Bromley's Environment Awards are open to anyone living or working in the London Borough of Bromley.
		The awards recognise and reward examples of sustainable development from school projects to built environment schemes.
	www.sage-rsa.org.uk /category.asp?id=3 (655 words)

	Global Built Environment Review Main (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although the main focus of GBER is the 'Built Environment' it also intends to include debates from the perspectives of the related macro socio economic, political and developmental issues.
		The journal is genuinely interested in debates on the built environment of both the developing and the developed world.
		The idea is to foster an effective north south solidarity and provide a forum to encourage a better understanding and communication on a wide variety of built environment issues including the emerging 'globalisation and its impact on both Eastern and Western multicultural built environment'.
	www.edgehill.ac.uk /gber (419 words)

	Year of the Built Environment [Ministry for the Environment] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		2005 was the Year of the Built Environment (YBE2005) - as proclaimed by the New Zealand Government in conjunction with the New Zealand Institute of Architects and a consortium of local government, industry, research and professional institutes.
		YBE2005 provided an opportunity to explore and celebrate our built environment - the buildings, spaces and structures in which we live, work and play.
		Throughout 2005 a collaborative series of events focused on and challenged people to recognise the role the built environment plays in our lives.
	www.mfe.govt.nz /issues/urban/ybe (133 words)

	Wayfinding: Human Perceptions & Orientation; in the Built Environment by Sharon MacMinner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We rely on visual cues in the environment to not only tell us where we are, how to get where we want to be, but also when we get there.
		While these elements are most commonly used in creating aesthetically pleasing structures and environments, some thought should be given to using them in order to aid wayfinding, and make the environment more friendly to its intended users.
		This is a wonderfully written book which concentrates on human perception of the environment (both physical and psychological), and the use of lighting to help define the spaces we live, work and travel in.
	www.unl.edu /casetudy/456/sharon.htm (595 words)

	School of the Built Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In September 2002 we merged with the School of Planning and became known as the School of the Built Environment.
		The School is a centre of excellent teaching with programmes at all levels from Foundation level, through Bachelor's and Master's degrees to the research degrees of Mphil and PhD.
		Our research is ranked as Grade 4 and we have world class researchers covering most aspects of the built environment.
	www.brookes.ac.uk /schools/be/! (358 words)

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		BDP's mission is to ensure a better built environment for all Australians by the effective use of the design professions in achieving better planning, building and infrastructure, sustainable use of resources and more affordable housing.
		The BDP Policy Statement on the Built Environment and its 13 supporting statements position BDP on major issues that are vital to the integrity of the built environment and to the cultural heritage contained within the built environment.
		Governments are encouraged to adopt the BDP policy for the Built Environment as a framework to guide the development of the built environment in Australia.
	www.bdp.asn.au (321 words)

	Health, Equity, and the Built Environment
		Disparities in the built environment can be identified in at least five arenas: housing, transportation, food, parks and green spaces, and squalor.
		There is increasing recognition that the built environment may affect what people eat.
		In at least five arenas--housing, transportation, food, parks and green spaces, and squalor--environmental justice and the built environment intersect to affect the health of poor people and people of color.
	www.ehponline.org /docs/2005/113-5/editorial.html (2351 words)

	Overview - Obesity and the Built Environment
		This conference will provide a forum to discuss and illustrate how different elements of the built environment contribute to obesity via access to food and physical activity, and how environmental health research and interventions can address this public health problem.
		Develop research and practice agendas to examine the relationship between the built environment and obesity.
		Representatives of environment, health, planning, and transportation agencies of federal, state, and local governments.
	www.niehs.nih.gov /drcpt/beoconf (207 words)

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