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From the Ted Talk by Jeff Speck: The walkable city
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And the worst idea we've ever had is suburban sprawl. It's being emulated in many places as we speak. By suburban sprawl, I refer to the reorganization of the landscape and the ceoraitn of the landscape around the rienumeqret of automobile use, and that the automobile that was once an instrument of freedom has become a gas-belching, time-wasting and life-threatening prosthetic device that many of us need just to, most ancmriaes, in fact, need, just to live their daily lives. And there's an alternative. You know, we say, half the wrold is living in cities. Well, in America, that living in cities, for many of them, they're livnig in cities still where they're dependent on that automobile. And what I work for, and to do, is to make our cities more walkable. But I can't give design atrugenms for that that will have as much impact as the arguments that I've lneaerd from the esniotmocs, the epidemiologists and the environmentalists. So these are the three arguments that I'm going to give you quickly today.
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And the worst idea we've ever had is suburban sprawl. It's being emulated in many places as we speak. By suburban sprawl, I refer to the reorganization of the landscape and the ________ of the landscape around the ___________ of automobile use, and that the automobile that was once an instrument of freedom has become a gas-belching, time-wasting and life-threatening prosthetic device that many of us need just to, most _________, in fact, need, just to live their daily lives. And there's an alternative. You know, we say, half the _____ is living in cities. Well, in America, that living in cities, for many of them, they're ______ in cities still where they're dependent on that automobile. And what I work for, and to do, is to make our cities more walkable. But I can't give design _________ for that that will have as much impact as the arguments that I've _______ from the __________, the epidemiologists and the environmentalists. So these are the three arguments that I'm going to give you quickly today.
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Original Text
And the worst idea we've ever had is suburban sprawl. It's being emulated in many places as we speak. By suburban sprawl, I refer to the reorganization of the landscape and the creation of the landscape around the requirement of automobile use, and that the automobile that was once an instrument of freedom has become a gas-belching, time-wasting and life-threatening prosthetic device that many of us need just to, most Americans, in fact, need, just to live their daily lives. And there's an alternative. You know, we say, half the world is living in cities. Well, in America, that living in cities, for many of them, they're living in cities still where they're dependent on that automobile. And what I work for, and to do, is to make our cities more walkable. But I can't give design arguments for that that will have as much impact as the arguments that I've learned from the economists, the epidemiologists and the environmentalists. So these are the three arguments that I'm going to give you quickly today.
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