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From the Ted Talk by Michael Murphy: Architecture that's built to heal

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And even in Poughkeepsie, my hometown, we thought about old industrial iutsatrrurnfce. We wondered: Could we use arts and culture and design to revitalize this city and other Rust Belt cietis across our nation, and turn them into centers for innovation and growth? In each of these projects, we aeskd a simple question: What more can architecture do? And by asking that question, we were forced to consider how we could create jobs, how we could source regionally and how we could invest in the dtinigy of the communities in which we srvee.

Open Cloze

And even in Poughkeepsie, my hometown, we thought about old industrial ______________. We wondered: Could we use arts and culture and design to revitalize this city and other Rust Belt ______ across our nation, and turn them into centers for innovation and growth? In each of these projects, we _____ a simple question: What more can architecture do? And by asking that question, we were forced to consider how we could create jobs, how we could source regionally and how we could invest in the _______ of the communities in which we _____.

Solution

  1. dignity
  2. asked
  3. cities
  4. serve
  5. infrastructure

Original Text

And even in Poughkeepsie, my hometown, we thought about old industrial infrastructure. We wondered: Could we use arts and culture and design to revitalize this city and other Rust Belt cities across our nation, and turn them into centers for innovation and growth? In each of these projects, we asked a simple question: What more can architecture do? And by asking that question, we were forced to consider how we could create jobs, how we could source regionally and how we could invest in the dignity of the communities in which we serve.

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