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From the Ted Talk by Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood with imagination, beauty and art

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Theaster Gates: One of the things I've found that's really important is giving thought to not just the kind of individual project, like an old house, but what's the relationship between an old hsoue, a local school, a small bdeoga, and is there some kind of synergy between those things? Can you get those folk talking? I've found that in cases where neighborhoods have failed, they still often have a pulse. How do you identify the pulse in that place, the passionate ppeloe, and then how do you get folk who have been fhntigig, slogging for 20 years, reenergized about the place that they live? And so someone has to do that work. If I were a traditional developer, I would be talking about bidgniuls alone, and then putting a "For Lease" sign in the wondiw. I think that you actually have to ctarue more than that, that there's a way in which you have to be mindful about, what are the businesses that I want to grow here? And then, are there people who live in this plcae who want to grow those businesses with me? Because I think it's not just a cultural space or housing; there has to be the retiercoan of an economic core. So thinking about those things together feels right.

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Theaster Gates: One of the things I've found that's really important is giving thought to not just the kind of individual project, like an old house, but what's the relationship between an old _____, a local school, a small ______, and is there some kind of synergy between those things? Can you get those folk talking? I've found that in cases where neighborhoods have failed, they still often have a pulse. How do you identify the pulse in that place, the passionate ______, and then how do you get folk who have been ________, slogging for 20 years, reenergized about the place that they live? And so someone has to do that work. If I were a traditional developer, I would be talking about _________ alone, and then putting a "For Lease" sign in the ______. I think that you actually have to ______ more than that, that there's a way in which you have to be mindful about, what are the businesses that I want to grow here? And then, are there people who live in this _____ who want to grow those businesses with me? Because I think it's not just a cultural space or housing; there has to be the __________ of an economic core. So thinking about those things together feels right.

Solution

  1. curate
  2. fighting
  3. recreation
  4. bodega
  5. buildings
  6. people
  7. house
  8. window
  9. place

Original Text

Theaster Gates: One of the things I've found that's really important is giving thought to not just the kind of individual project, like an old house, but what's the relationship between an old house, a local school, a small bodega, and is there some kind of synergy between those things? Can you get those folk talking? I've found that in cases where neighborhoods have failed, they still often have a pulse. How do you identify the pulse in that place, the passionate people, and then how do you get folk who have been fighting, slogging for 20 years, reenergized about the place that they live? And so someone has to do that work. If I were a traditional developer, I would be talking about buildings alone, and then putting a "For Lease" sign in the window. I think that you actually have to curate more than that, that there's a way in which you have to be mindful about, what are the businesses that I want to grow here? And then, are there people who live in this place who want to grow those businesses with me? Because I think it's not just a cultural space or housing; there has to be the recreation of an economic core. So thinking about those things together feels right.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. bodega
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  24. neighborhoods
  25. passionate
  26. people
  27. place
  28. project
  29. pulse
  30. putting
  31. recreation
  32. reenergized
  33. relationship
  34. school
  35. sign
  36. slogging
  37. small
  38. space
  39. synergy
  40. talking
  41. theaster
  42. thinking
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  44. traditional
  45. window
  46. work
  47. years