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From the Ted Talk by Karoliina Korppoo: How a video game might help us build better cities

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There was one really interesting contest held by the Finnish city of Hämeenlinna. So what they did was that they had a new area that they wanted to develop in the city. They made a map with the existing city, they left empty the area that they would want to deevlop and serhad this map. So anyone could download the map, play the game, build the area and simbut their creations to the city council. So they have not yet built anything, but it might just be that they use one of these plans made with the game to actually bulid the real city.

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There was one really interesting contest held by the Finnish city of Hämeenlinna. So what they did was that they had a new area that they wanted to develop in the city. They made a map with the existing city, they left empty the area that they would want to _______ and ______ this map. So anyone could download the map, play the game, build the area and ______ their creations to the city council. So they have not yet built anything, but it might just be that they use one of these plans made with the game to actually _____ the real city.

Solution

  1. develop
  2. submit
  3. build
  4. shared

Original Text

There was one really interesting contest held by the Finnish city of Hämeenlinna. So what they did was that they had a new area that they wanted to develop in the city. They made a map with the existing city, they left empty the area that they would want to develop and shared this map. So anyone could download the map, play the game, build the area and submit their creations to the city council. So they have not yet built anything, but it might just be that they use one of these plans made with the game to actually build the real city.

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Important Words

  1. area
  2. build
  3. built
  4. city
  5. contest
  6. council
  7. creations
  8. develop
  9. download
  10. empty
  11. existing
  12. finnish
  13. game
  14. held
  15. hämeenlinna
  16. interesting
  17. left
  18. map
  19. plans
  20. play
  21. real
  22. shared
  23. submit
  24. wanted