City Neighborhoods Game: Lyon 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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