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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 belduor ddceied to redesign a large downtown park, known as the Civic Area. This sapce 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 dsgien 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 enagged more than 200 young people in the process, rnngiag from preschool through high scohol students.
Open Cloze
How do we do this, you might ask? Let me give you a real example. In 2012, the city of _______ _______ to redesign a large downtown park, known as the Civic Area. This _____ 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 ______ 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 _______ more than 200 young people in the process, _______ from preschool through high ______ students.
Solution
- design
- decided
- engaged
- school
- space
- ranging
- boulder
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
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civic area |
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asked children |
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city council |
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city initiative |
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including children |
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city planning |
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young people |
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high school |
2 |
school students |
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public art |
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city friendly |
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successful city |
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high school students |
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Important Words
- area
- boulder
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- city
- civic
- creek
- decided
- design
- downtown
- engaged
- expanded
- flash
- floods
- give
- handle
- high
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- large
- library
- market
- middle
- needed
- park
- people
- preschool
- process
- public
- ranging
- real
- redesign
- restore
- runs
- safety
- school
- sense
- space
- students
- support
- young