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From the Ted Talk by Jeff Speck: 4 ways to make a city more walkable
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So it's fun to break sprawl down into its constituent parts. It's so easy to understand, the places where you only live, the places where you only work, the places where you only shop, and our super-sized piulbc institutions. schloos get bigger and bigger, and therefore, further and further from each other. And the ratio of the size of the pinkrag lot to the size of the school tells you all you need to know, which is that no clihd has ever walked to this school, no child will ever walk to this school. The seirnos and juniors are driving the feremhsn and the sophomores, and of course we have the crash statistics to prove it.
Open Cloze
So it's fun to break sprawl down into its constituent parts. It's so easy to understand, the places where you only live, the places where you only work, the places where you only shop, and our super-sized ______ institutions. _______ get bigger and bigger, and therefore, further and further from each other. And the ratio of the size of the _______ lot to the size of the school tells you all you need to know, which is that no _____ has ever walked to this school, no child will ever walk to this school. The _______ and juniors are driving the ________ and the sophomores, and of course we have the crash statistics to prove it.
Solution
- seniors
- parking
- public
- child
- schools
- freshmen
Original Text
So it's fun to break sprawl down into its constituent parts. It's so easy to understand, the places where you only live, the places where you only work, the places where you only shop, and our super-sized public institutions. Schools get bigger and bigger, and therefore, further and further from each other. And the ratio of the size of the parking lot to the size of the school tells you all you need to know, which is that no child has ever walked to this school, no child will ever walk to this school. The seniors and juniors are driving the freshmen and the sophomores, and of course we have the crash statistics to prove it.
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