attracteurs

English translation: draw/pull/lure

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French term or phrase:	attracteurs
English translation:	draw/pull/lure
Entered by:	Miranda Joubioux (X)

14:44 Jul 18, 2012

French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Architecture

French term or phrase: attracteurs

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Les espaces ouverts des grands ensembles, socle commun de ce territoire entre ville et campagne, deviennent le support d’une cité parc. Elle réunit les grands attracteurs métropolitains à la vie locale des quartiers, par des espaces publics permissifs.

Miranda Joubioux (X) KudoZ activity Questions: 591 (none open) (65 closed without grading) Answers: 712
Local time: 18:50

draw/pull/lure (of the big city)

Explanation:
Attracteurs is a strange word choice; I guess it refers to the appeal of the big city (vibrant night life, employment, subcultures, specialized jobs/industries, etc).

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Note added at 1 day1 hr (2012-07-19 16:05:14 GMT)
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Thought of maybe adding "factors" to the mix: pull factors, draw factors.

Selected response from:

Wolf Draeger
South Africa
Local time: 18:50

Grading comment

I used 'draw', 'lure' and 'attraction'. Difficult to attribute points here, but I felt Wolf deserved them for taking me in the right direction.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +5

attractions

kashew

animators

telefpro

attractivities

B D Finch

3 +1

draw/pull/lure (of the big city)

Wolf Draeger

Discussion entries: 4

Answers

13 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

attractions

Explanation:
big city attractions? Magnets??

kashew
France
Local time: 18:50
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 99

Notes to answerer

Asker: Why use "attracteur" when "attraction" exists in French? I had been thinking on the line of "pull factors", but it doesn't fit.

Asker: I see this word as similar to "acteurs"

33 mins confidence:

animators

Explanation:
I hope it helps

telefpro
Local time: 22:20
Native speaker of:

Portuguese,

English

19 hrs confidence:

attractivities

Explanation:
This is a term used in town planning contexts and, as a quick internet search will show, widely misused on badly translated websites where the non-native speaker translator failed to realise that it is a technical term.

www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/scatter/download/D5_D6_scatter_part2.pdf
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"The Helsinki model area is actually a large region that includes both urban and ... status as the capital city and home for industry headquarters, the economy of the .... the interaction of transport demand and supply at the Master Plan until the ...... for the transport subsystem and “regional attractivities” for the urban/regional ..."

www.dft.gov.uk/webtag/documents/expert/unit3.10.2.php
"For example, the IHT's Guidelines on Developing Urban Transport Strategies .... in the city-centre completes one trip from suburb to centre in the morning and one trip .... trip ends by purpose, Local Authority planning data for employees, retail and ... totals for doubly-constrained (to/from work) trip distribution, and attractivities ..."

As an example of misuse, where the writer should have used "attractions" and not "attractivities":

"The main attractivities of the city are very near to the Hotel: 1) Duomo ..."
http://florence.hotel-colorado.tobook.com /Italy/Hotels/Hotel-Colorado?citypname=Florence

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Note added at 19 hrs (2012-07-19 09:47:00 GMT)
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Another misuse:
";www.ownersdirect.co.uk › Hungary › Budapest › City of Budapest
"Outstanding located apartment for a city-holiday! ... in the neighbourhood, but a lot of interesting museums, attractivities, baths etc are on foot available, you"

B D Finch
France
Local time: 18:50
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 163

Notes to answerer

Asker: I have often seen this in a tourism context, but it is usually rendered by the word 'attractivité' in French

6 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

draw/pull/lure (of the big city)

...combines the draw of the big city with the community feel/aspect of suburban life through shared public spaces.
...combines the lure of the big city with the community feel/aspect of suburban life through shared public spaces.

Wolf Draeger
South Africa
Local time: 18:50
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

I used 'draw', 'lure' and 'attraction'. Difficult to attribute points here, but I felt Wolf deserved them for taking me in the right direction.

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