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From the Ted Talk by Vishaan Chakrabarti: How we can design timeless cities for our collective future

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And the project is both poetry and prose. The ptroey is really about evoking the local: the muotnuaoins terrain, using clroos to pick up the staepccular light, understanding how to irntepret the naoidmc traditions that animate the nation of Mongolia. The prose has been the development of a catalogue of buildings, of small buildings that are fairly affordable, using local construction materials and technology that can still provide new forms of housing, new workspace, new shops and cultural buildings, like a theater or a museum — even a haunted house.

Open Cloze

And the project is both poetry and prose. The ______ is really about evoking the local: the ___________ terrain, using ______ to pick up the ___________ light, understanding how to _________ the _______ traditions that animate the nation of Mongolia. The prose has been the development of a catalogue of buildings, of small buildings that are fairly affordable, using local construction materials and technology that can still provide new forms of housing, new workspace, new shops and cultural buildings, like a theater or a museum — even a haunted house.

Solution

  1. poetry
  2. mountainous
  3. nomadic
  4. interpret
  5. spectacular
  6. colors

Original Text

And the project is both poetry and prose. The poetry is really about evoking the local: the mountainous terrain, using colors to pick up the spectacular light, understanding how to interpret the nomadic traditions that animate the nation of Mongolia. The prose has been the development of a catalogue of buildings, of small buildings that are fairly affordable, using local construction materials and technology that can still provide new forms of housing, new workspace, new shops and cultural buildings, like a theater or a museum — even a haunted house.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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