Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
coordinations de quartier
English translation:
joint local committees
Added to glossary by
Yvonne Gallagher
- The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2010-11-06 19:54:09 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
Nov 3, 2010 16:30
13 yrs ago
French term
coordinations de quartier
French to English
Social Sciences
Environment & Ecology
Urban Renewal
I think it means local joint committee meetings but can't find any references in english
Proposed translations
(English)
4 | joint local committees | Yvonne Gallagher |
4 | neighbourhood coordination meetings/committees | Bourth (X) |
Change log
Nov 7, 2010 01:31: Yvonne Gallagher changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/0">'s</a> old entry - "coordinations de quartier "" to ""joint local committees ""
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joint local committees
as suggested by asker. Doubt it's neighbourhood watch as that is more of a passive rather than action) committee. Some evidence for just leaving as neighbourhood coordination
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or local joint committees.
if you google these words you will get a lot of examples of this type of committee
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joint committee also involved with local authorities or councils.
e.g. In the UK the term "joint committee" can also refer to a committee of local authorities ...
www.answers.com/topic/joint-committee
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Note added at 2 hrs (2010-11-03 19:06:26 GMT)
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or local joint committees.
if you google these words you will get a lot of examples of this type of committee
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Note added at 6 hrs (2010-11-03 23:22:02 GMT)
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joint committee also involved with local authorities or councils.
e.g. In the UK the term "joint committee" can also refer to a committee of local authorities ...
www.answers.com/topic/joint-committee
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Comment: "thanks gallagy2"
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neighbourhood coordination meetings/committees
Since this is about urban renewal, I imagine it involves the municipality and its engineers, town planners, and architects arranging meetings with the local population, expounding their ideas for development, listening with the greatest attention to the "expectations" of said local community, then proceeding to do what they were going to do anyway. The whole initiative will involve getting school kids to draw what will be painted on the site hoardings (and paying some artist a small fortune to actually do the painting), inviting residents to suggest names for the new streets, schools, and other buildings, putting up public-notices (the more colours and fancy drawings the better) informing people of what is going on, taking locals (including school groups) to visit similar projects in another neighbourhood/city, etc.
The proposal so far sounds (to me) too much like committees involving only the local neighbourhood, not the administrative authority undertaking development.
The proposal so far sounds (to me) too much like committees involving only the local neighbourhood, not the administrative authority undertaking development.
Note from asker:
Oh, its sooo much worse than that ... you forgot to mention the fundraising aspect (illogical, overnight modifications to traffic circulation as a source of traffic/speeding fines, disappearance of free parking, unaffordable "affordable" public transport ... not to mention ambitious landscaping projects involving the slaughter of existing trees in order to make way for planting ... er ... other trees. Its all happening at a town near you in my particular corner of France. |
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