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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 you have the sprawl of LA, the sprawl of Mexico City. You have these uvbanleeblie new cities in China, which you might call twoer srwpal. They're all biulnidg cities on the model that we invteend in the '50s and '60s, which is really obsolete, I would augre, and there are hundreds and hundreds of new cities that are being planned all over the world. In China alone, 300 million people, some say 400 million people, will move to the city over the next 15 years. That means building the equivalent of the entire built infrastructure of the US in 15 years. Imagine that.

Open Cloze

So you have the sprawl of LA, the sprawl of Mexico City. You have these ____________ new cities in China, which you might call _____ ______. They're all ________ cities on the model that we ________ in the '50s and '60s, which is really obsolete, I would _____, and there are hundreds and hundreds of new cities that are being planned all over the world. In China alone, 300 million people, some say 400 million people, will move to the city over the next 15 years. That means building the equivalent of the entire built infrastructure of the US in 15 years. Imagine that.

Solution

  1. argue
  2. sprawl
  3. unbelievable
  4. building
  5. invented
  6. tower

Original Text

So you have the sprawl of LA, the sprawl of Mexico City. You have these unbelievable new cities in China, which you might call tower sprawl. They're all building cities on the model that we invented in the '50s and '60s, which is really obsolete, I would argue, and there are hundreds and hundreds of new cities that are being planned all over the world. In China alone, 300 million people, some say 400 million people, will move to the city over the next 15 years. That means building the equivalent of the entire built infrastructure of the US in 15 years. Imagine that.

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