Urban mobility is, in addition, linked with environmental protection strategies and fully embedded in policies of social inclusion, location, housing and urban design.

One place where we have been successful is Collingwood, because they have an urban design standard that has been set up by urban planning as part of.The planner is a member of the institute or of the association, and he has done a remarkable job in pushing and making it law that you have to be thoughtful about this stuff.

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.

Rather than the Strategy including a statement that green space is important to urban design, I think it better to state we need, say, 15% green space in urban areas or so many metres per 1000 population.

RECALLS that Decision No 1600/2002/EC laying down the Sixth Community Environment Action Programme, particularly its recital 27 and Articles 2(2), 4 and 7(2)(h), refers to the need for concerted efforts to ensure a better and healthier environment and to contribute to a high level of quality of life and social well being for citizens by encouraging sustainable urban development and establishes a thematic strategy on the urban environment as a priority action; WELCOMES the Commission Communication "Towards a thematic strategy on the urban environment"; SUPPORTS its analysis of environmental problems and conditions in urban areas in Europe as a basis for the forthcoming thematic strategy; ALSO SUPPORTS the four priority themes - management, transport, constru ...[+++]ction and urban design - all of which have clear links to economic and social issues and are relevant for the sustainable development of urban areas; STRESSES the need to address also strategic environmental issues to reduce cities' impact on the wider environment; CONSIDERS that actions under the thematic strategy on the urban environment should, among other things, contribute to the reduction of air and noise pollution; and UNDERLINES the importance of a continued focus at Community level on source-related measures, in particular for transport; AGREES that further development of the suggested actions and measures for the thematic strategy on the urban environment should have regard to:

- an adequate knowledge of urban design, planning and the skills involved in the planning process