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Urban Transportation Renewal Activity 1
TASK: Your job is to design and present a plan for a city. You will use wood blocks to represent buildings, and erasable markers for roads.
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RESOURCES:
1. $10,000,000
2. An 11" x 17" piece of metal representing your city
3. Wood blocks representing buildings:
GREEN for homes GOLD for businesses (like stores) ORANGE for industries (like factories)
4. Erasable markers representing roads, train tracks, and bike paths:
GREEN for bike paths RED for car roads BLACK for bus roads BLUE for train tracks
5. Yellow or orange markers representing park land blue wooden blocks representing public buildings.
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CONSTRAINTS:
1. Your city must contain a minimum number of buildings:
Homes for at least 100 people 15 businesses 3 industries
FOUR people can live in each GREEN home Each GOLD building can hold TWO businesses Each industry must be in its own ORANGE building
2. All buildings must be accessible by motor vehicle, train, or bike:
Trains may travel on BLUE train tracks only Bikes may travel on GREEN bike paths only Buses or trucks may travel on BLACK bus roads only Cars may travel on BLACK bus roads or RED car roads only
3. You must save some money for the future.
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COSTS: |
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GREEN home . . . . . $ 40,000 |
GREEN bike paths (per inch) . . . . . $ 5,000 |
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GOLD business . . . . . 100,000 |
RED car roads . . . . . 20,000 |
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ORANGE industry . . . . . 1,000, 000 |
BLACK bus roads . . . . . 50,000 |
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Park land . . . . . FREE |
BLUE train tracks . . . . . 50,000 |