aprovechar la estela de una ciudad importante
English translation: enabling it to benefit from its proximity to Valencia
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| 06:42 Jun 29, 2010 |
| Spanish to English translations [Non-PRO] Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) / Interview with a Mayor | |||||||
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(of) taking advantage of being close to/near a large/important city Explanation: To me, "estela" is really referring to "being in the trail of" here, i.e. of being close to or near Valencia. I would most definitely NOT be literal here! This would be my version, undoubtedly. |
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peer agreement (net): +1follow in an important city's slipstream Explanation: I think this would work nicely. |
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the impetus from being in a major city's slipstream Explanation: or "...being in the slipstream of a major city." 5 Nov 2009 ... extensively used between major city pairs such as Melbourne-Sydney by 2028, ...... and every carriage rides in the slipstream of the one in front — the .... that gave the impetus to help continue Australia's growth. ... www.crikey.com.au/.../sydneymelbourne-by-plane-or-bust-airb... Detroit not only major city with budget shortfall, ...26 May 2010 ... Daily news and features from crainsdetroit.com and from the weekly newspaper Crain's Detroit Business. RSS feeds for breaking news and the ... www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20100526/FREE/100529900 WFTO - Vancouver is Canada's first major city to achieve Fair ...7 May 2010 ... www.wfto.com/index.php?option=com_content&task...id... |
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catching the draft of Explanation: basking in the reflected glory of a major city hitching one's wagon a major city riding on the coat tails of tagging along behind riding in the draft of (from cycling) |
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| aprovechar la estela de una ciudad importante como Valencia cash in on its proximity to Valencia (see below) Explanation: My reading here. I would rearrange “a major city such as Valencia”, because “such as” just doesn’t work in English, the town IS close Valencia, clearly; it is not close to “a city such as Valencia”... So I would render it something like this: “It has the undoubted advantages of location — meaning it can cash in on its proximity to Valencia, and all the facilities such a major city has to offer: services, industry...” Hope this helps :-) Reference: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22cashing+in+on+its+proxim... |
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can make use of its proximity to the sphere of influence of a major city like Valencia Explanation: or you can say "market area" instead of "sphere of influence" Hope it helps! Reference: http://geographyfieldwork.com/urban_geography_glossary.htm Reference: http://www.thenorthernway.co.uk/page.asp?id=59 |
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reaping the benefits of being in the urban periphery | sphere of influence | of an important city. Explanation: Unable to find a good metaphor, this is my best guess. |
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| Reference: Urban/Regional Planning concepts Reference information: The following concepts and texts elaborating their meanings may help translators who are not familiar with them. Spillover effects: Cities and suburbs share a special interrelationship—they are both dependent on one another yet, simultaneously, in competition with one another. Because of their impact on the regional land and labor markets, fiscal policies undertaken in the central city can have effects that extend beyond its political jurisdiction. An understanding of these potential ***spillovers*** is critical in the design of regional economic policy. With no such understanding, one municipality's policies could lead to undesirable consequences for the metropolitan area as a whole, such as increasing suburban sprawl. http://www.springerlink.com/content/j8t20g514h521047/ Ripple effects: As we enter into a new world of a global economy, we suddenly find that changes that begin with a ***ripple effect*** can ultimately lead to a tsunami outcome. The United States has recently experience a severe economic downturn resulting from a number of economic factors. As we inch closer and closer to becoming a global society, we see a shift in how we view the role of metropolitan and urban growth. Cities offer culture, entertainment and lucrative opportunities that are not as available in most rural communities. Over time, the attraction to cities from urban life has increased and in present day, the majority of people tend to be city dwellers. While each city takes on an identity as unique as its skyline, cities around the world also have certain traits and attractions common to each other. Geographies, commerce, race and gender have all played a key role in how cities have evolved and how they will continue to evolve in the future. In this new global economy, much of business is interacted via the internet between private parties. Companies like ebay, PayPal, Craigslist.com, Sykes.com etc. provide the means for international transactions to be available to even the most novice of international traders. The relatively low cost of developing a website and posting on the World Wide Web allows entrepreneurs to conduct business worldwide from any home computer or even a portable laptop with wireless internet capabilities. The Internet, with some exception, also allows anonymity. This anonymity significantly contributes to reducing the threat of racial or gender related issues from arising. http://socyberty.com/economics/influences-and-impacts-of-a-g... Spread effects: An expression used by G. Myrdal (1975) to describe the filtering through of wealth from central, prosperous areas, to peripheral, less wealthy areas. Thus, increased economic activity at the core may stimulate a demand for more raw materials from the periphery, and technological advance in the core region may be applied to other regions. A belief in the spread effect lies behind the planning of growth poles; in a sense, the spread effect is the spatial equivalent of trickle-down economics. http://www.answers.com/topic/spread-effect Economies of scale// agglomeration economies: The economic rationale for urbanization can be reduced to two basic concepts: the division of labour, and ***economies of scale.*** The former was introduced by Adam Smith and explains the benefits for productivity that arise from specialization between producers. It accounted for the great leap forward from craft production to factory production that gave rise to the industrial revolution. Economies of scale relate to the efficiencies that result from larger units of production. Larger firms can spread their fixed costs (rent, rates, R&D, etc.) over a larger volume of output and buy their inputs at lower prices. External economies of scale (or*** 'agglomeration economies'***) relate to the benefits that firms derive from locating near to their customers and suppliers in order to reduce transport costs. They also include proximity to a large labour pool, competitors within the same industry, and firms in other industries http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section~db=all~fulltext=713... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day1 hr (2010-06-30 08:36:45 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- URBAN FIELD * The Urban field is the region economically and socially linked to a city. * It is also referred to as o Urban Regions:The commuter villages/communities dependent on large towns o Functional Regions:The regions to/from which a city exports and imports. o Hinterland:The area served by a seaport -- SPHERE OF INFLUENCE The sphere of influence is the area of under influence of the Central Place. A Central Place is a settlement which provides one or more services for the population living around it. Simple basic services (e.g. grocery stores) are said to be of low order while specialized services (e.g. universities) are said to be of high order. Having a high order service implies there are low order services around it, but not vice versa. Settlements which provide low order services are said to be low order settlements. Settlements that provide high order services are said to be high order settlements. http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/ibgeography/urbanisation.html |
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