The term “built environment” refers to aspects of the man-made environment that differ from the natural environment. This includes not only buildings, but also artificial spaces between buildings such as parks and infrastructure that support human activities such as transportation networks, utilities, flood protection, and communications.
The built environment is also called the created environment. Some examples of the built environments are cities, buildings, urban spaces, walkways, roads, parks, etc.
The built environment covers all types of buildings (residential, industrial, commercial, hospitals, schools, etc.) above and underground, and civil engineering infrastructure, and includes the managed landscape buildings between and around.
The built environment can be a useful term as other descriptions such as ‘building’, ‘civil engineering’, ‘construction’, etc. do not fully capture the scope of our built environment and do not separate subjects into their subjects. . Component. Discipline fragments what should be viewed as a holistic endeavor. However, the term itself is not widely used and is easily misunderstood.
As the population grows and pressures for sustainability increase, the requirements on the built environment are becoming more and more demanding. More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, and this figure is expected to increase by more than 70% by the second half of the century, even more, pronounced as the world’s population grows by 2 billion people. within the same period.
There is broad agreement that densely populated urban areas should be more sustainable than less concentrated rural settlements. However, although around 50% of the world’s population lives in cities, they account for more than 75% of non-renewable resource consumption and generate about three-quarters of global pollution.