Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

coordinations de quartier

English translation:

joint local committees

Added to glossary by Yvonne Gallagher
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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
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 ""

Discussion

Joanne Nebbia (asker) Nov 3, 2010:
fair enough
chaplin Nov 3, 2010:
Fair enough Britaly! By the way definItely has no A...
Yvonne Gallagher Nov 3, 2010:
Thanks Britaly, know how great it is when someone agrees. Good luck!
Joanne Nebbia (asker) Nov 3, 2010:
Hi ségolène, thanks for the input but this is definately about the management of a project aimed at sustainability in town planning (cycle routes, parking restrictions, changes in the main circulation routes etc) and meetings would have been about progress reports, event planning, evaluations and public surveys etc)
chaplin Nov 3, 2010:
I think it sounds like neighbourhood Watch sheme in England. It depends on what the aims of the group are.
Joanne Nebbia (asker) Nov 3, 2010:
ah ... you will have to post the answer first though.
Joanne Nebbia (asker) Nov 3, 2010:
Hi gallagy2 - you get the points for agreeing with me since it doesn't often happen in this house!. I am going to have to talk to the client in any case to confirm as, believe me, "c'est de la gnognotte" compared to some of the brain-squirming phrases in this document. Thanks :)
Yvonne Gallagher Nov 3, 2010:
see www.ville-elancourt.fr your original idea might be right, "joint local commitee" or just coordination of neighborhood.as it is used here
Joanne Nebbia (asker) Nov 3, 2010:
Unfortunately its an already truncated bullet point in a document describing best practice in urban renewal - this is the unexpurgated version though for what its worth "Points « projet urbain » lors de coordinations de quartier (tous les deux mois)" I am already assuming that Points is supposed to mean evaluation as in "faire le point". Am not enjoying this at all! thanks for the help
Yvonne Gallagher Nov 3, 2010:
Hi Britaly, could you give some context please?

Proposed translations

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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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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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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.
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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