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03:44 Mar 27, 2014 

"le désenclavement consiste le plus souvent en grands travaux d'infrastructures de communication (voie d'eau, chemin de fer, aérodrome, etc." very down to earth - about transport links.
Thinking of it, urban planners are usually high ranking bureaucrats, not poets. When they use "désenclavement" it's most literally and palpably about physical isolation.

11:22 Mar 26, 2014 

is landlocked (eg. Switzerland). Désenclavement means taking them out of their isolation, opening them up.
I think talking about "transport" is going too far. Some of their isolation is that they form a world in themselves, ghetto-like. Often it refers to areas with serried ranks of skyrise buildings, concrete everywhere, no soul. The measures taken to free them from this ghetto-like existence can take many forms....

11:06 Mar 26, 2014 

The GDT says

"Le désenclavement est l'action par laquelle est rompu l'isolement matériel, moral et économique de zones vouées, par l'évolution des techniques ou par les circonstances de leur histoire, à la stagnation voire à la sécession.
Notes

Se présentant avant tout comme une action économique, le désenclavement consiste le plus souvent en grands travaux d'infrastructures de communication (voie d'eau, chemin de fer, aérodrome, etc.) mais il peut également être obtenu par une politique tarifaire appropriée. Il est toujours l'oeuvre d'une collectivité et même si on le considère à une échelle suffisante, souvent l'oeuvre des pouvoirs publics."
It doesn't give a translation.
My very old Larousse says "opening up to outside influence"

10:16 Mar 26, 2014 

yes, I don't see it as very likely that "désenclavement" is being used as figure of speech to mean "ending the social isolation" of deprived areas (although it would make perfect sense). It must be about a very literal "désenclavement" ending the physical isolation of these areas by creating better transport links to the rest of the town.

08:44 Mar 26, 2014 

...by applying measures to improve acces.

08:40 Mar 26, 2014 

"Réintégrer ces quartiers au reste de la ville, par des actions de désenclavement"
The word "désenclavement" also crops up again later on its own and in a list of several other actions.

08:35 Mar 26, 2014 

What's the whole sentence? What comes before and after?