In the empty blocks of the grid, write how each building type adapts each feature to make it work for its purpose. You can often guess the plan of a building by looking at its exterior. After viewing one of the video segments, rewind to a view of a building and ask students to sketch its floor plan as they imagine it from what they can see in the video. Find a floor plan of the school and discuss the impact of the plan on school life. Many of the older neighborhoods featured in the Pittsburgh History Series developed before zoning laws.
City planners are now planning more mixed-use neighborhoods than zoning laws usually permit.
For example, Washington's Landing combines housing, recreation, and light industry. Most Likely to Succeed Discuss these questions while pausing the video at a particular building, while looking at any building in a photo or in real life, or after completing the Mainstreet Mural activity . It's OK to have very different opinions, but students must explain why they feel the way they do. What factors to decision makers have to keep in mind when deciding what to do with old buildings. Ask each student to write down the names of the three landmarks they think are most important.