Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
attracteurs
English translation:
draw/pull/lure
Added to glossary by
Miranda Joubioux (X)
Jul 18, 2012 14:44
11 yrs ago
French term
Miranda Joubioux (X)
attracteurs
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Architecture
target=uk
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.
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.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +1 | draw/pull/lure (of the big city) |
Wolf Draeger
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| 3 +5 | attractions |
kashew
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| 4 | animators |
telefpro
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| 4 | attractivities |
B D Finch
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Proposed translations
+1
6 hrs
Selected
draw/pull/lure (of the big city)
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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Thought of maybe adding "factors" to the mix: pull factors, draw factors.
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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.
Example sentence:
...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.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
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."
+5
13 mins
attractions
big city attractions? Magnets??
Note from asker:
| Why use "attracteur" when "attraction" exists in French? I had been thinking on the line of "pull factors", but it doesn't fit. |
| I see this word as similar to "acteurs" |
Peer comment(s):
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Michele Lemaire
: I would use magnets
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Kate Collyer
: attractions, or: focal points?
6 mins
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| agree |
Colin Rowe
: (urban) magnets is what I was going to suggest, but my PC crashed... :-(
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Jocelyne Cuenin
: Magnet. Ai trouvé ceci (attracteur = aussi une personne) : Les personnages clés du grand territoire urbain étaient définis au début du XXe siècle comme des attracteurs des désirs émergents de la désorientation métropolitaine: la prostituée, la tenancière
1 hr
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Bertrand Leduc
3 hrs
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33 mins
animators
I hope it helps
19 hrs
attractivities
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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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"
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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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"
Note from asker:
| I have often seen this in a tourism context, but it is usually rendered by the word 'attractivité' in French |
Discussion
-OR: (physics) An attractor is a set towards which a dynamical system evolves over time. That is, points that get close enough to the attractor remain close even if slightly disturbed¨. This is a simple definition from Wikipedia. The geometric result of the attractor image is a fractal.
Conceptually, some cities or neighborhoods have ¨attractors¨, in which inhabitants are a complex system and no matter what, they keep close to a certain attractor.
adj.
Qui agit par attraction, qui exerce une attraction.
... certaines zones ... agissent comme des attracteurs.
see pages 9-11