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From the Ted Talk by Kent Larson: Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city
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I thought I would satrt with a very brief history of cities. Settlements typically began with people clustered around a well, and the size of that settlement was roughly the distance you could walk with a pot of water on your head. In fact, if you fly over Germany, for example, and you look down and you see these hundreds of little velliags, they're all about a mile apart. You neeedd easy access to the fields. And for hundreds, even thousands of yreas, the home was really the center of life. Life was very small for most people. It was a center of entertainment, of egrney production, of work, a cenetr of health care. That's where babies were born and people died.
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I thought I would _____ with a very brief history of cities. Settlements typically began with people clustered around a well, and the size of that settlement was roughly the distance you could walk with a pot of water on your head. In fact, if you fly over Germany, for example, and you look down and you see these hundreds of little ________, they're all about a mile apart. You ______ easy access to the fields. And for hundreds, even thousands of _____, the home was really the center of life. Life was very small for most people. It was a center of entertainment, of ______ production, of work, a ______ of health care. That's where babies were born and people died.
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Original Text
I thought I would start with a very brief history of cities. Settlements typically began with people clustered around a well, and the size of that settlement was roughly the distance you could walk with a pot of water on your head. In fact, if you fly over Germany, for example, and you look down and you see these hundreds of little villages, they're all about a mile apart. You needed easy access to the fields. And for hundreds, even thousands of years, the home was really the center of life. Life was very small for most people. It was a center of entertainment, of energy production, of work, a center of health care. That's where babies were born and people died.
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