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R E A D I N G
READING PASSAGE 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on 
Questions 
1-13, which are based on Reading
Passage 1 below.
Could urban engineers learn from dance?
A
The way we travel around cities has a m ajor impact on whether they are sustainable. 
Transportation is estimated to account for 30% o f energy consumption in m ost o f the 
w orld’s m ost developed nations, so lowering the need for energy-using vehicles is essential 
for decreasing the environmental im pact o f mobility. But as more and more people move to 
cities, it is im portant to think about other kinds o f sustainable travel too. The ways we travel 
affect our physical and mental health, our social lives, our access to work and culture, and 
the air we breathe. Engineers are tasked w ith changing how we travel round cities through 
urban design, but the engineering industry still works on the assumptions that led to the 
creation o f the energy-consuming transport systems we have now: the emphasis placed 
solely on efficiency, speed, and quantitative data. We need radical changes, to make it 
healthier, m ore enjoyable, and less environmentally dam aging to travel around cities.
В 
Dance m ight hold some o f the answers. That is not to suggest everyone should dance their 
way to work, however healthy and happy it might make us, but rather that the techniques 
used by choreographers to experim ent w ith and design m ovement in dance could provide 
engineers w ith tools to stimulate new ideas in city-making. Richard Sennett, an influential 
urbanist and sociologist who has transform ed ideas about the way cities are m ade, 
argues that urban design has suffered from a separation between mind and body since the 
introduction o f the architectural blueprint.
С 
W hereas medieval builders im provised and adapted construction through their intimate
knowledge o f materials and personal experience o f the conditions on a site, building designs 
are now conceived and stored in m edia technologies that detach the designer from the 
physical and social realities they are creating. W hile the design practices created by these 
new technologies are essential for m anaging the technical complexity o f the m odern city, 
they have the drawback o f sim plifying reality in the process.

To illustrate, Sennett discusses the Peachtree Center in Atlanta, USA, a development typical 
o f the m odernist approach to urban planning prevalent in the 1970s. Peachtree created a grid 
o f streets and towers intended as a new pedestrian-friendly downtown for Atlanta. According 
to Sennett, this failed because its designers had invested too m uch faith in com puter-aided 
design to tell them how it would operate. They failed to take into account that purpose-built 
street cafes could not operate in the hot sun without the protective awnings com m on in older 
buildings, and would need energy-consum ing air conditioning instead, or that its giant car 
park would feel so unwelcom ing that it would put people off getting out of their cars. W hat 
seems entirely predictable and controllable on screen has unexpected results when translated 
into reality.

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