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- noun Plural form of
charrette .
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Several site tours and onsite planning sessions called charrettes have already taken place.
Stacey McMahan: Santo: A New Community at Haiti's Earthquake Epicenter Stacey McMahan 2011
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Several site tours and onsite planning sessions called charrettes have already taken place.
Stacey McMahan: Santo: A New Community at Haiti's Earthquake Epicenter Stacey McMahan 2011
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Several site tours and onsite planning sessions called charrettes have already taken place.
Stacey McMahan: Santo: A New Community at Haiti's Earthquake Epicenter Stacey McMahan 2011
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Several site tours and onsite planning sessions called charrettes have already taken place.
Stacey McMahan: Santo: A New Community at Haiti's Earthquake Epicenter Stacey McMahan 2011
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As Mr. Duany says, it's both top-down, because of the Charter, and bottom-up, because in practice New Urbanists designers and planners use local workshops, called charrettes, to listen to what the locals have to say about their lives and conditions.
Frank Gruber: Report From the Denver New Urbanism Congress Part 3 2009
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As Chair he pioneered multi party sustainable community design workshops now generally known as charrettes, starting in 1995 with the seminal Sustainable Urban Landscapes Surrey Design Charrette.
Skytrain has run its course; LRT is the way to go. « Stephen Rees's blog 2009
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As Chair he pioneered multi party sustainable community design workshops now generally known as charrettes, starting in 1995 with the seminal Sustainable Urban Landscapes Surrey Design Charrette.
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Larger severance payments do exist, but they go to people who are fired by large companies in so-called charrettes (meaning "cartloads," reminiscent of the cartloads of people sent to the guillotine during the revolution).
Mail Call 2007
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Larger severance payments do exist, but they go to people who are fired by large companies in so-called charrettes (meaning "cartloads," reminiscent of the cartloads of people sent to the guillotine during the revolution).
MAIL CALL 2007
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As Chair he pioneered multi party sustainable community design workshops now generally known as charrettes, starting in 1995 with the seminal Sustainable Urban Landscapes Surrey Design Charrette.
BC Bloggers 2009
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