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From the Ted Talk by Mara Mintzer: How kids can help design cities

Unscramble the Blue Letters

How do we do this, you might ask? Let me give you a real example. In 2012, the city of Boulder decided to reeisgdn a large downtown park, known as the cviic Area. This space is bounded by a farmers' market on one end, Boulder Public Library on the other end, and by Boulder Creek, which runs through the mildde. The space needed a new dgiesn to better handle the creek's inevitable fsalh floods, restore a sense of safety to the area and support an expanded farmers' market. So from 2012 through 2014, we engaged more than 200 young people in the pocress, rnginag from preschool through high school students.

Open Cloze

How do we do this, you might ask? Let me give you a real example. In 2012, the city of Boulder decided to ________ a large downtown park, known as the _____ Area. This space is bounded by a farmers' market on one end, Boulder Public Library on the other end, and by Boulder Creek, which runs through the ______. The space needed a new ______ to better handle the creek's inevitable _____ floods, restore a sense of safety to the area and support an expanded farmers' market. So from 2012 through 2014, we engaged more than 200 young people in the _______, _______ from preschool through high school students.

Solution

  1. process
  2. redesign
  3. design
  4. flash
  5. civic
  6. middle
  7. ranging

Original Text

How do we do this, you might ask? Let me give you a real example. In 2012, the city of Boulder decided to redesign a large downtown park, known as the Civic Area. This space is bounded by a farmers' market on one end, Boulder Public Library on the other end, and by Boulder Creek, which runs through the middle. The space needed a new design to better handle the creek's inevitable flash floods, restore a sense of safety to the area and support an expanded farmers' market. So from 2012 through 2014, we engaged more than 200 young people in the process, ranging from preschool through high school students.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
civic area 4
asked children 3
city council 2
city initiative 2
including children 2
city planning 2
young people 2
high school 2
school students 2
public art 2
city friendly 2
successful city 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
high school students 2

Important Words

  1. area
  2. boulder
  3. bounded
  4. city
  5. civic
  6. creek
  7. decided
  8. design
  9. downtown
  10. engaged
  11. expanded
  12. flash
  13. floods
  14. give
  15. handle
  16. high
  17. inevitable
  18. large
  19. library
  20. market
  21. middle
  22. needed
  23. park
  24. people
  25. preschool
  26. process
  27. public
  28. ranging
  29. real
  30. redesign
  31. restore
  32. runs
  33. safety
  34. school
  35. sense
  36. space
  37. students
  38. support
  39. young