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From the Ted Talk by Kent Larson: Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city

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So the dpeloeervs say, well, this is great. OK, so if we have a conventional buidling, we have a fixed envelope, maybe we can put in 14 units. If they function as if they're twice as big, we can get 28 units in. That means twice as much pnakrig, though. Parking's really expensive. It's about 70,000 dollars per space to build a conventional parking spot inside a building. So if you can have folding and autonomy, you can do that in one-seventh of the space. That goes down to 10,000 dlrolas per car, just for the cost of the parking. You add shared use, and you can even go further.

Open Cloze

So the __________ say, well, this is great. OK, so if we have a conventional ________, we have a fixed envelope, maybe we can put in 14 units. If they function as if they're twice as big, we can get 28 units in. That means twice as much _______, though. Parking's really expensive. It's about 70,000 dollars per space to build a conventional parking spot inside a building. So if you can have folding and autonomy, you can do that in one-seventh of the space. That goes down to 10,000 _______ per car, just for the cost of the parking. You add shared use, and you can even go further.

Solution

  1. building
  2. developers
  3. parking
  4. dollars

Original Text

So the developers say, well, this is great. OK, so if we have a conventional building, we have a fixed envelope, maybe we can put in 14 units. If they function as if they're twice as big, we can get 28 units in. That means twice as much parking, though. Parking's really expensive. It's about 70,000 dollars per space to build a conventional parking spot inside a building. So if you can have folding and autonomy, you can do that in one-seventh of the space. That goes down to 10,000 dollars per car, just for the cost of the parking. You add shared use, and you can even go further.

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