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From the Ted Talk by Kent Larson: Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city
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I thought I would start with a very brief history of cities. stntmeleets typically bgean with people clustered around a well, and the size of that settlement was roughly the dicnaste you could walk with a pot of water on your head. In fact, if you fly over granmey, for example, and you look down and you see these hundreds of little vigllaes, they're all about a mile apart. You neeedd easy access to the fields. And for heddurns, even thousands of years, the home was really the center of life. Life was very small for most people. It was a center of entertainment, of energy production, of work, a center of health care. That's where babies were born and people died.
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I thought I would start with a very brief history of cities. ___________ typically _____ with people clustered around a well, and the size of that settlement was roughly the ________ you could walk with a pot of water on your head. In fact, if you fly over _______, for example, and you look down and you see these hundreds of little ________, they're all about a mile apart. You ______ easy access to the fields. And for ________, even thousands of years, the home was really the center of life. Life was very small for most people. It was a center of entertainment, of energy production, of work, a center of health care. That's where babies were born and people died.
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- villages
- distance
- began
- needed
- hundreds
- germany
- settlements
Original Text
I thought I would start with a very brief history of cities. Settlements typically began with people clustered around a well, and the size of that settlement was roughly the distance you could walk with a pot of water on your head. In fact, if you fly over Germany, for example, and you look down and you see these hundreds of little villages, they're all about a mile apart. You needed easy access to the fields. And for hundreds, even thousands of years, the home was really the center of life. Life was very small for most people. It was a center of entertainment, of energy production, of work, a center of health care. That's where babies were born and people died.
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