environmental design
Americannoun
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the ordering of the large-scale aspects of the environment by means of architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, urban planning, regional planning, etc., usually in combination.
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the study or practice of this.
Example Sentences
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In a statement, the Clippers said Ballmer and his family are “focused on sustainability” and built the Clippers’ home arena at the leading edge of environmental design.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025
Donovan Finn, a professor of environmental design at Stony Brook University and a member of the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay, agrees that there are only tough choices ahead.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2022
It’s no coincidence that the game often resembles the early Resident Evil titles in its environmental design.
From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2020
From the loathsome lusus naturae of behemoth horror series to the sprawling cosmopolis of complex management simulators, video games often feature wrenched contortions of the natural world as core tenets in environmental design.
From The Verge • Feb. 13, 2020
Susannah Drake, an architect at DLANDstudio focusing on environmental design, said that city climate adaptation is absolutely a matter of safety.
From Slate • Oct. 11, 2019
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