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From the Ted Talk by Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia

Unscramble the Blue Letters


This is another infill pcoerjt on the pkrniag lots, this one of an office park outside of wgnitahson D.C. When Metrorail expanded transit into the suburbs and opened a station nearby to this site, the owners dcieedd to build a new parking deck and then isernt on top of their surface lots a new Main Street, several apartments and condo buildings, while keeping the existing office buildings. Here is the site in 1940: It was just a little farm in the village of hlttislvaye. By 1980, it had been subdivided into a big mall on one side and the office park on the other and then some buffer sites for a library and a church to the far right. Today, the transit, the Main Street and the new hunisog have all been built. Eventually, I excpet that the streets will probably extend through a redevelopment of the mall. Plans have already been announced for a lot of those garden artetapnms above the mall to be redeveloped. tanisrt is a big driver of retrofits. So here's what it looks like. You can sort of see the funky new cnodo buildings in between the office buildings and the public space and the new Main sreett.

Open Cloze


This is another infill _______ on the _______ lots, this one of an office park outside of __________ D.C. When Metrorail expanded transit into the suburbs and opened a station nearby to this site, the owners _______ to build a new parking deck and then ______ on top of their surface lots a new Main Street, several apartments and condo buildings, while keeping the existing office buildings. Here is the site in 1940: It was just a little farm in the village of ___________. By 1980, it had been subdivided into a big mall on one side and the office park on the other and then some buffer sites for a library and a church to the far right. Today, the transit, the Main Street and the new _______ have all been built. Eventually, I ______ that the streets will probably extend through a redevelopment of the mall. Plans have already been announced for a lot of those garden __________ above the mall to be redeveloped. _______ is a big driver of retrofits. So here's what it looks like. You can sort of see the funky new _____ buildings in between the office buildings and the public space and the new Main ______.

Solution


  1. expect
  2. parking
  3. hyattsville
  4. washington
  5. housing
  6. decided
  7. project
  8. insert
  9. transit
  10. condo
  11. street
  12. apartments

Original Text


This is another infill project on the parking lots, this one of an office park outside of Washington D.C. When Metrorail expanded transit into the suburbs and opened a station nearby to this site, the owners decided to build a new parking deck and then insert on top of their surface lots a new Main Street, several apartments and condo buildings, while keeping the existing office buildings. Here is the site in 1940: It was just a little farm in the village of Hyattsville. By 1980, it had been subdivided into a big mall on one side and the office park on the other and then some buffer sites for a library and a church to the far right. Today, the transit, the Main Street and the new housing have all been built. Eventually, I expect that the streets will probably extend through a redevelopment of the mall. Plans have already been announced for a lot of those garden apartments above the mall to be redeveloped. Transit is a big driver of retrofits. So here's what it looks like. You can sort of see the funky new condo buildings in between the office buildings and the public space and the new Main Street.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
parking lots 4
main street 4
shopping center 3
development patterns 2
cheap land 2
surface parking 2
strip shopping 2
walkable urban 2
office park 2
office buildings 2
parking lot 2
astroturf town 2
town green 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
surface parking lots 2
strip shopping center 2
astroturf town green 2

Important Words


  1. announced
  2. apartments
  3. big
  4. buffer
  5. build
  6. buildings
  7. built
  8. church
  9. condo
  10. decided
  11. deck
  12. driver
  13. eventually
  14. existing
  15. expanded
  16. expect
  17. extend
  18. farm
  19. funky
  20. garden
  21. housing
  22. hyattsville
  23. infill
  24. insert
  25. keeping
  26. library
  27. lot
  28. lots
  29. main
  30. mall
  31. metrorail
  32. nearby
  33. office
  34. opened
  35. owners
  36. park
  37. parking
  38. plans
  39. project
  40. public
  41. redeveloped
  42. redevelopment
  43. retrofits
  44. side
  45. site
  46. sites
  47. sort
  48. space
  49. station
  50. street
  51. streets
  52. subdivided
  53. suburbs
  54. surface
  55. today
  56. top
  57. transit
  58. village
  59. washington