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BOARD GAME - ESP AND GRAMMAR END-OF-COURSE REVISION 1. city centre 2. low-line cluster of building, located in suburbs, surrounded by parking lots 3. residential houses (usu. terraced or free-standing), big-box stores, office parks 4. degradation of city centres caused by population shift to suburbs that in turn causes the decrease of tax revenue resulting in services reduction, deterioration of the standard of living, shutting down businesses, increase of crime in inner cities, all of which makes the exodus to suburbs even more intense 5. planned community - a town or city planned and built from scratch, e.g. Masdar, Brasilia; gated community - a housing estate / block of flat surrounded by a fencing with limited / controlled access of general public 6. castrum romanum provided a pattern for grid planned cities 7. mixed-use development - multi-functional building / area such as e.g. neighbourhood (e.g with residential, commercial, recreational programme) 8. the inner square - a square itself; the outer square - the surrounding buildings; both should interact, the outer square should be "open", with "active ground floor" 9. corridor - a vehicle-oriented street, unfriendly for pedestrains; community street - just the opposite 10. facilities - e.g. buildings of particular purpose like medical or school facilities, also infrastructure or amenities, e.g. for disabled, pedestrians, etc; amenities - e.g. equipment in the kitchen, pedestrian amenities like benches, pavements, etc. 11. office park - see question 2 and pocket park - a small green area usu. in the city centre, surrouned by buildings 12. participatory design - involving the people in the designing process, asking them what they would like to have in their house; also giving them only "half a good house" and leaving the other half for them to finish 13. underprivileged people - deprived, these who can't satisfy their basic needs such as buying food, clothes, paying bills, etc. 14. refugee shelter - a temporary house for victims of man-made or natural disasters 15. city block - an urban area limited by four streets, usu. lined with row-development; block of flats - a type of residential building, usu. multi-storey, always multi-family one 16. have been 17. had worked / had been working; fired 18. fell / was watching 19. are you going / we'll probably stay 20. In spite of 21. because 22. so as not to 23. so that 24. whose 25. has destroyed 26. must be operated 27. is being repaired 28. helping 29. refurbishing / selling 30. feel