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

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(Laughter)

While these concerns sound legitimate, I realized that not including cerlhidn in city planning was a bigger dgisen proelbm. After all, shouldn't we include end users in the design process? If we're building a park to be largely used by kids, then kids should have a say in the park's design. So with all of this in mind, we formed a program claeld "Growing Up Boulder," and my job is to work with children ages zero through 18 to come up with innovative city-design solutions.

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 dwowontn park, known as the Civic Area. This space is bounded by a farmers' market on one end, Boulder pilubc Library on the other end, and by Boulder ceerk, which runs through the middle. The sacpe needed a new design to better handle the creek's inevitable flash foolds, rrtosee a sense of safety to the area and support an expanded farmers' mrkeat. So from 2012 through 2014, we engaged more than 200 young people in the poscers, ranging from preschool through high school students.

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While these concerns sound legitimate, I realized that not including ________ in city planning was a bigger ______ _______. After all, shouldn't we include end users in the design process? If we're building a park to be largely used by kids, then kids should have a say in the park's design. So with all of this in mind, we formed a program ______ "Growing Up Boulder," and my job is to work with children ages zero through 18 to come up with innovative city-design solutions.

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 ________ park, known as the Civic Area. This space is bounded by a farmers' market on one end, Boulder ______ Library on the other end, and by Boulder _____, which runs through the middle. The _____ needed a new design to better handle the creek's inevitable flash ______, _______ a sense of safety to the area and support an expanded farmers' ______. So from 2012 through 2014, we engaged more than 200 young people in the _______, ranging from preschool through high school students.

Solution


  1. restore
  2. called
  3. creek
  4. space
  5. process
  6. children
  7. market
  8. design
  9. public
  10. downtown
  11. floods
  12. problem

Original Text


(Laughter)

While these concerns sound legitimate, I realized that not including children in city planning was a bigger design problem. After all, shouldn't we include end users in the design process? If we're building a park to be largely used by kids, then kids should have a say in the park's design. So with all of this in mind, we formed a program called "Growing Up Boulder," and my job is to work with children ages zero through 18 to come up with innovative city-design solutions.

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


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