charrette
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thumb | right | Arrival of a cart in the courtyard of the Beaux-Arts, Gazette-St-Germain-des-Prés, Sept. 1965 A charrette (American pronunciation: ; ), often Anglicized to charette or charet and sometimes called a design charrette, is an intense period of design or planning activity.
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- Origin
- Term ambiguity
- National Charrette Institute
- NCI Charrette System
- Phase One: Research, engagement, charrette preparation
- Phase Two: The charrette
- Phase Three: Plan adoption
- Examples
- Midland, Australia (1997)
- East Nashville, Tennessee, US (1999)
- Scarborough, England (2002)
- In U.S. social history
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb | right | Arrival of a cart in the courtyard of the Beaux-Arts, Gazette-St-Germain-des-Prés, Sept. 1965 A charrette (American pronunciation: ; ), often Anglicized to charette or charet and sometimes called a design charrette, is an intense period of design or planning activity.
The word charrette may refer to any collaborative process by which a group of designers draft a solution to a design problem, and in a broader sense can be applied to the development of public policy through dialogue between decision-makers and stakeholders.