lo urbano
English translation: an urban approach // urban planning // urbanism
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| 17:13 Sep 27, 2010 |
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|  Selected response from: Muriel Vasconcellos United States Local time: 07:45 | ||||||
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| 4 +5 | an urban approach |
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| 4 +1 | urban planning |
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| 4 +1 | urbanism |
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| 3 | city-oriented design |
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| 2 | urbanization |
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peer agreement (net): +1urban planning Explanation: me parece que tu traducción en ese contexto es muy apropiada. ver http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-urban-planning.htm |
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urbanization Explanation: I feel the writer is trying to remain general with his 'lo urbano', with the accent on the urban environment (vs. promoting, say, the countryside). I wonder if you could get away 'urbanization' , and say 'opting for urbanization' in the first instance and 'using urbanization as a lever...' in the next paragraph. Don't know if this helps at all, but it is considered..! |
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city-oriented design Explanation: two things occur to me, firstly the city of San Sebastián (not far from Bilbao) which is bidding to become the 2016 European Capital of Culture and prides itself on being a "city on a human scale": although large, it makes an effort to be "people-friendly" with pedestrian precincts, cycle tracks and bike hire for tourists... that's the best aspect of urban planning. The second thing is that Bilbao had many riverside (located on the estuary) industries which have disappeared and it has striven to replace them with cultural amenities... still being a city, but one where people really want to live. |
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21 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1urbanism Explanation: I believe that this is actually referring to the architectural concept of "urbanism." See e.g.,: New Urbanism is an urban design movement, which promotes walkable neighborhoods that contain a range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s and continues to reform many aspects of real estate development and urban planning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Urbanism -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 22 mins (2010-09-27 17:36:07 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "Urbanism" in its wider sense will also include the study of the interaction between the city and the rural hinterland. No city can exist without a hinterland to supply it, but, because of communications technology, this hinterland may be less easy to identify than it was in pre-industrial, agrarian societies, and furthermore the conception of how the hinterland relates to the city may change throughout history. In the Roman Empire and ancient Greece), for example, the municipium and polis were considered to consist of both "urban" centre and hinterland, with which they formed one unified social, political and economic entity. The word urbanism is also used as a qualitative complement to the description of various urban and rural forms i.e.: informal urbanism, new urbanism, self-sufficient urbanism, sustainable urbanism, centralized or decentralized urbanism, neo-traditional urbanism, transitional urbanism, other urbanisms, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanism -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 24 mins (2010-09-27 17:38:36 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Spanish could also use "urbanismo" for this concept, but here it may be that the author is using "lo urbano" to get at the concept more obliquely. Cf. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanismo. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2010-09-27 18:47:56 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Note to Robert: Thanks for your note. I think that what makes this particular case somewhat difficult is that there is probably a more specific term that could have been used for all of the potential solutions. For example: urbanización for "urbanization" or "city planning" http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dict_en_es/spanish/urba... planificación urbanística for "urban planning," and so forth. |
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3 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +5
peer agreement (net): +5an urban approach Explanation: Examples: However, in order to optimise the energy efficiency potential, an urban approach is needed. Transport and mobility ... www.rics.org/site/scripts/news_article.aspx?newsID=1536 An Urban Approach to Climate Sensitive Design: Strategies for the Tropics by M. Rohinton Emmanuel. (Hardcover 9780203414644) www.paperbackswap.com/Urban-Approach...M.../0203414640/ Where garden city ideas generated expanding suburbs on every front, new urbanism would advocate a return to an urban approach. And where twentieth century ... www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-167253614.html Over the last decade, the European Commission has been developing an urban approach to regional policy, as well as to its other policies. ... www.feantsa.org/files/indicators_wg/urban/background.doc latter will be discussed below, within an urban approach; for it is necessary to consider that the degradation of land determines a settlement's exposure to ... www.cityfutures2009.com/PDF/49_Kapstein_Paula.pdf The idea/requirement for each project to self park its off-street parking is not an urban approach. You don't drive from one subterranean structure to get ... www.biasandiego.org/pdfs/6.4.5UrbanDevGuidelinesBIA.pdf |
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