The Danish Architecture Centre on the waterfront in the Christianshavn area focuses on design for the built environment and offers guided tours of changing exhibitions, with an emphasis on environmentally-sustainable architecture.

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Peers also asked the government about the merger of the Competition Commission and the Office of Fair Trading, the future of the Fulbright Scholarship Programme, and design quality in the built environment.

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The so-called New Urbanism movement emerged in the mid-90s and has been steadily gaining momentum, especially with rising energy costs, environmental concerns and health problems associated with what Leinberger calls "drivable suburbanism" -- a low-density built environment plan that emerged around the end of the World War II and has been the dominant design in the U.S. ever since.

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