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From the Ted Talk by Aziza Chaouni: How I brought a river, and my city, back to life
Unscramble the Blue Letters
The second site of intervention is also an urban void along the river banks, and it used to be an illegal parking, and we porespod to transform it into the first playground in the medina. The playground is constructed using rcyeelcd tires and also is coupled with a constructed wtlenad that not only cleans the water of the river but also retains it when floods ouccr.
As the project pgesroersd and received several design awrads, new stakeholders intervened and changed the project goals and design. The only way for us to be able to bring the main galos of the project ahead was for us to do something very unusual that usually architects don't do. It was for us to take our design ego and our ssnee of authorship and put it in the backseat and to focus mainly on being activists and on trying to coalesce all of the adganes of stakeholders and focus on the main goals of the project: that is, to uncover the river, treat its water, and provide public spaces for all. We were actually very lucky, and many of those goals happened or are in the process of happening. Like, you can see here in the Rcif Plaza. This is how it looked like about six years ago. This is how it looks like today. It's still under construction, but actually it is heavily used by the local puloiatopn. And finally, this is how the Rcif Plaza will look like when the project is completed. This is the river, cvereod, used as a trash yard. Then after many years of work, the reivr with claen water, uncovered. And finally, you can see here the river when the project will be completed.
Open Cloze
The second site of intervention is also an urban void along the river banks, and it used to be an illegal parking, and we ________ to transform it into the first playground in the medina. The playground is constructed using ________ tires and also is coupled with a constructed _______ that not only cleans the water of the river but also retains it when floods _____.
As the project __________ and received several design ______, new stakeholders intervened and changed the project goals and design. The only way for us to be able to bring the main _____ of the project ahead was for us to do something very unusual that usually architects don't do. It was for us to take our design ego and our _____ of authorship and put it in the backseat and to focus mainly on being activists and on trying to coalesce all of the _______ of stakeholders and focus on the main goals of the project: that is, to uncover the river, treat its water, and provide public spaces for all. We were actually very lucky, and many of those goals happened or are in the process of happening. Like, you can see here in the Rcif Plaza. This is how it looked like about six years ago. This is how it looks like today. It's still under construction, but actually it is heavily used by the local __________. And finally, this is how the Rcif Plaza will look like when the project is completed. This is the river, _______, used as a trash yard. Then after many years of work, the _____ with _____ water, uncovered. And finally, you can see here the river when the project will be completed.
Solution
- recycled
- agendas
- wetland
- proposed
- goals
- covered
- awards
- progressed
- river
- population
- clean
- occur
- sense
Original Text
The second site of intervention is also an urban void along the river banks, and it used to be an illegal parking, and we proposed to transform it into the first playground in the medina. The playground is constructed using recycled tires and also is coupled with a constructed wetland that not only cleans the water of the river but also retains it when floods occur.
As the project progressed and received several design awards, new stakeholders intervened and changed the project goals and design. The only way for us to be able to bring the main goals of the project ahead was for us to do something very unusual that usually architects don't do. It was for us to take our design ego and our sense of authorship and put it in the backseat and to focus mainly on being activists and on trying to coalesce all of the agendas of stakeholders and focus on the main goals of the project: that is, to uncover the river, treat its water, and provide public spaces for all. We were actually very lucky, and many of those goals happened or are in the process of happening. Like, you can see here in the Rcif Plaza. This is how it looked like about six years ago. This is how it looks like today. It's still under construction, but actually it is heavily used by the local population. And finally, this is how the Rcif Plaza will look like when the project is completed. This is the river, covered, used as a trash yard. Then after many years of work, the river with clean water, uncovered. And finally, you can see here the river when the project will be completed.
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