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

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So, were all of the kids' ideas implemented at the cviic Area? Of course not. dacrcmoey is a messy process. But just as a reasonable and well-informed adult does not epxcet all of her ideas to be utilized, neither does a nine-year-old. We've now been using this process for eight years, and along the way, we've found some incredible benefits to designing cities with children. First of all, kids think differently from adults. And that's a good thing. Adults think about constraints, how much time will a project take, how much mneoy will it cost and how drouegans will it be. In other words, "Are we going to get sued?"

Open Cloze

So, were all of the kids' ideas implemented at the _____ Area? Of course not. _________ is a messy process. But just as a reasonable and well-informed adult does not ______ all of her ideas to be utilized, neither does a nine-year-old. We've now been using this process for eight years, and along the way, we've found some incredible benefits to designing cities with children. First of all, kids think differently from adults. And that's a good thing. Adults think about constraints, how much time will a project take, how much _____ will it cost and how _________ will it be. In other words, "Are we going to get sued?"

Solution

  1. dangerous
  2. expect
  3. democracy
  4. civic
  5. money

Original Text

So, were all of the kids' ideas implemented at the Civic Area? Of course not. Democracy is a messy process. But just as a reasonable and well-informed adult does not expect all of her ideas to be utilized, neither does a nine-year-old. We've now been using this process for eight years, and along the way, we've found some incredible benefits to designing cities with children. First of all, kids think differently from adults. And that's a good thing. Adults think about constraints, how much time will a project take, how much money will it cost and how dangerous will it be. In other words, "Are we going to get sued?"

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. adult
  2. adults
  3. area
  4. benefits
  5. children
  6. cities
  7. civic
  8. constraints
  9. cost
  10. dangerous
  11. democracy
  12. designing
  13. differently
  14. expect
  15. good
  16. ideas
  17. implemented
  18. incredible
  19. kids
  20. messy
  21. money
  22. process
  23. project
  24. reasonable
  25. sued
  26. time
  27. utilized
  28. words
  29. years