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From the Ted Talk by Rahul Mehrotra: The architectural wonder of impermanent cities

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In my own city of Mumbai, where I practice as an architect and a pelnanr, I see this in the eaveydry landscape. I call this the Kinetic City. It twitches like a live organism; it's not static. It changes every day, on sometimes predictable cycles. About six million people live in these kinds of tpmoreray settlements. Like — unfortunately, like refugee camps, the slums of Mumbai, the favelas of Latin America. Here, the temporary is becoming the new permanent. Here, ursiabnm is not about grand vision, it's about grand adjseutmnt.

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In my own city of Mumbai, where I practice as an architect and a _______, I see this in the ________ landscape. I call this the Kinetic City. It twitches like a live organism; it's not static. It changes every day, on sometimes predictable cycles. About six million people live in these kinds of _________ settlements. Like — unfortunately, like refugee camps, the slums of Mumbai, the favelas of Latin America. Here, the temporary is becoming the new permanent. Here, ________ is not about grand vision, it's about grand __________.

Solution

  1. temporary
  2. adjustment
  3. planner
  4. urbanism
  5. everyday

Original Text

In my own city of Mumbai, where I practice as an architect and a planner, I see this in the everyday landscape. I call this the Kinetic City. It twitches like a live organism; it's not static. It changes every day, on sometimes predictable cycles. About six million people live in these kinds of temporary settlements. Like — unfortunately, like refugee camps, the slums of Mumbai, the favelas of Latin America. Here, the temporary is becoming the new permanent. Here, urbanism is not about grand vision, it's about grand adjustment.

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