Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
le tout minéral
English translation:
completely/all/totally hard landscaping
Added to glossary by
B D Finch
Feb 14, 2017 14:46
7 yrs ago
French term
France
Environmental translations
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: French to English, English, English to French
le tout minéral
French to English
Social Sciences
Construction / Civil Engineering
Urban planning
This term is in a magazine overview of major public projects in a large French city:
"Le quartier vient repenser l’urbanisme, en rupture avec le **tout minéral** des quartiers tertiaires classiques : un quartier à vivre, végétalisé et animé, sort de terre en son hyper-centre."
Minéral is obviously in opposition to having more vegetation, but not sure how best to express that. All-concrete doesn't sound quite right, maybe something all the lines of too much/excessive paving? Overly paved? Concrete style/landscape? Devoid of nature? I can't quite put my finger on this one.
Would appreciate any suggestions!
UK English here.
"Le quartier vient repenser l’urbanisme, en rupture avec le **tout minéral** des quartiers tertiaires classiques : un quartier à vivre, végétalisé et animé, sort de terre en son hyper-centre."
Minéral is obviously in opposition to having more vegetation, but not sure how best to express that. All-concrete doesn't sound quite right, maybe something all the lines of too much/excessive paving? Overly paved? Concrete style/landscape? Devoid of nature? I can't quite put my finger on this one.
Would appreciate any suggestions!
UK English here.
Proposed translations
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| 4 +3 | completely/all/totally hard landscaping |
B D Finch
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| 3 | all-mineral surroundings |
Louisa Tchaicha
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Change log
Feb 16, 2017 10:55: B D Finch Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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completely/all/totally hard landscaping
In English we refer to hard landscaping and soft landscaping. The former includes e.g. areas of concrete, stone, asphalt, fountains and walls and the latter includes trees flower beds, planted areas and lawns.
www.norrisandgardiner.co.uk › ServicesSoft Landscaping. Softening the landscape is the job of plants, from turf to towering trees from minimal planting schemes consisting of a single specimen to massed planting in vast swathes of colour, the options are boundless.
www.norrisandgardiner.co.uk › ServicesHard Landscaping From paving to pergolas, fountains to fencing, hard landscape features are what gives the landscape form and structure on which the softer ...
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www.bathnes.gov.uk/.../BackGround Papers-450960.pdf?...disc... of the planning condition 6 related to the soft landscaping. Condition 6. "No development shall be commenced until a hard and soft landscape scheme ...
www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/planning_portal/lpg_notes/lpg07.... Planning Guidance Notes No 7 - Landscape and Development ... Existing trees and other soft landscape features to be retained, and methods of ... Details of all existing and proposed hard landscape materials, and their location ...
www.salbris.com/plu2013/Rapport_de_Presentation.pdfRéduire les risques sanitaires liés aux plantes invasives. Le PLU de Salbris considère ..... tesque île de verdure au cœur d'un océan de cultures, entre Beauce et. Champagne Berrichonne. ...... agréable et d'éviter le tout minéral.
www.norrisandgardiner.co.uk › ServicesSoft Landscaping. Softening the landscape is the job of plants, from turf to towering trees from minimal planting schemes consisting of a single specimen to massed planting in vast swathes of colour, the options are boundless.
www.norrisandgardiner.co.uk › ServicesHard Landscaping From paving to pergolas, fountains to fencing, hard landscape features are what gives the landscape form and structure on which the softer ...
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Note added at 41 mins (2017-02-14 15:28:03 GMT)
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www.bathnes.gov.uk/.../BackGround Papers-450960.pdf?...disc... of the planning condition 6 related to the soft landscaping. Condition 6. "No development shall be commenced until a hard and soft landscape scheme ...
www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/planning_portal/lpg_notes/lpg07.... Planning Guidance Notes No 7 - Landscape and Development ... Existing trees and other soft landscape features to be retained, and methods of ... Details of all existing and proposed hard landscape materials, and their location ...
www.salbris.com/plu2013/Rapport_de_Presentation.pdfRéduire les risques sanitaires liés aux plantes invasives. Le PLU de Salbris considère ..... tesque île de verdure au cœur d'un océan de cultures, entre Beauce et. Champagne Berrichonne. ...... agréable et d'éviter le tout minéral.
Note from asker:
| This is perfect, thank you! |
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
philgoddard
: Just "hard landscaping" would do. And concrete jungle is a good suggestion too.
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Thanks phil. Town planners probably do use the term "concrete jungle" as a criticism of a total absence of soft-landscaping, but the technical term required here is "hard-landscaping". Le tout minéral is all hard landscaping (some is always needed)
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Nikki Scott-Despaigne
: Aaah, this makes sense. Thank you!
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Thanks Nikki
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Tony M
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Thanks Tony
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
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all-mineral surroundings
in contrast with the all-mineral surroundings, or "entirely mineral surroundings"
Discussion
As an example of the problems of balancing hard and soft landscaping, our town council recently improved our post-mod-meets-brutalist cultural centre by installing a green facade. However, a few months later, they concreted over a lawn in front of the building to make a skateboard park. The overall balance of soft and hard landscape has shifted slightly towards hard and the noise levels are (at times) much higher, though not as high as they'd be without the green facade. However, in terms of surface water drainage, the vertical soft landscaping does not in any way compensate for the increased horizontal, impermeable hard landscaping.