City Neighborhoods Game: Lyons and Strasbourg (France) Created by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget

City Neighborhoods Game: Lyons and Strasbourg (France) Created by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget

Objectives:

-Promote French Conversational Skills

-Promote Analysis Skills

-Promote French Writing Skills

-Promote Knowledge of French Culture

Level 1 – Gathering Background Information

To play this game, you need to read the book entitled La Ville des Temps Modern: de la Renaissance aux Révolutions by R. Chartier, G. Chaussinaud-Nogeret, and Hugues Neveux.

This book is in French only at the time of this writing.

Basically, the three authors write that different sections of Lyons (France) have schools, universities, libraries, public transportation, highways, and markets that met the needs of the city and nation of France during its days as a huge silk fabrication center.

Different kinds of housing and zoning regulations keep neighborhood denizens in their sociological niche usually.

Level 2 –

Look up various maps of Lyons (France) and its surrounding region, including relief maps

What are the city planning challenges in Lyons (France), especially for public health?

Look up public health to find out all the areas that this subject covers, if you would like to earn more

Find out the population of the City of Lyons at the time that the authors examined it and find out what the population figures are for today

What impact could this demographic (population) change have on managing the town?  Examples of items to think about include:

-housing

-sewage

-electrical grid

-school classroom size

-buses needed to take children to school

-health concerns such as vaccinations to attend school and work

Level 3

Write up what are the various neighborhoods in town such as:

-working class areas

-residential areas

-industrial areas

-civic centers

-arts areas

-university areas

(About 2 paragraphs for each neighborhood)

Level 4

After examining Lyons and its neighborhoods, can you guess what its major industry or industries were and are in the past and present?

How well is the City of Lyons set up to meet the current needs of industry in their town?

Level 5

In this level of the City and Neighborhoods Game, you are going to examine the City of Strasbourg (France) by examining the following book:

Dictionnaire Historique des Rues de Strasbourg (available on Amazon.com)

Level 6

Practice your French and write a 2-page summary describing what each neighborhood is like in Strasbourg based on the Dictionnaire Historique des Rues de Strasbourg.

Level 7

Look up various maps of Strasbourg (France) and its surrounding region, including relief maps.

What are the city planning challenges in Strasbourg (France), especially for public health?  Examples of items to think about include:

-housing

-sewage

-electrical grid

-school classroom size

-busses needed to take children to school

-health concerns such as vaccinations needed to attend school and work

Level 8

What are the various neighborhoods like?

(Working class residential, industrial zones, lawyers’ and public servants’ quarters, European politicians quarters, and quarters where the traditional nobility lived)

Level 9

Based on what you have examined, what do you think the main industry or industries were and are in Strasbourg?

Level 10

What are neighborhoods like in your town?

What kinds of markets and commerce do you have?  Can you order foods and pick them up at the markets?

What kinds of stores are in your neighborhood?

What kinds of industry and stores are in your neighborhood?

Level 11

Use the US Census figures for our neighborhood that are available online.

Many retailers would like to know the following basic information before investing in a community:

-income levels

-educational levels

-age distribution

Level 12

If national retailers do not want to come to your community, because of those 3 factors above or crime statistics for your area, think about how to provide these services locally.

The following books provide information on the “why” and “how” of committee formation and management:

Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes 1 and 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Robert’s Rules of Order – Newly Revised by Henry Robert III

By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

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