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From the Ted Talk by Rogier van der Heide: Why light needs darkness

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The world is changing though, and urbanization is a big driver of everything. I took this photo two weeks ago in Guangzhou, and I realized that 10 years ago, there was nothing like this, of these buildings. It was just a much smaller city, and the pace of urbanization is incredible and enormous. And we have to understand these main questions: How do people move through these new ubarn spaces? How do they srhae their culture? How do we tackle things like mobility? And how can light help there? Because the new tloghncoeies, they seem to be in a really interesting position to contribute to the solutions of ubiaoarntzin and to provide us with better environments.

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The world is changing though, and urbanization is a big driver of everything. I took this photo two weeks ago in Guangzhou, and I realized that 10 years ago, there was nothing like this, of these buildings. It was just a much smaller city, and the pace of urbanization is incredible and enormous. And we have to understand these main questions: How do people move through these new _____ spaces? How do they _____ their culture? How do we tackle things like mobility? And how can light help there? Because the new ____________, they seem to be in a really interesting position to contribute to the solutions of ____________ and to provide us with better environments.

Solution

  1. share
  2. urban
  3. urbanization
  4. technologies

Original Text

The world is changing though, and urbanization is a big driver of everything. I took this photo two weeks ago in Guangzhou, and I realized that 10 years ago, there was nothing like this, of these buildings. It was just a much smaller city, and the pace of urbanization is incredible and enormous. And we have to understand these main questions: How do people move through these new urban spaces? How do they share their culture? How do we tackle things like mobility? And how can light help there? Because the new technologies, they seem to be in a really interesting position to contribute to the solutions of urbanization and to provide us with better environments.

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