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"From the Ted Talk by Rob Forbes: Ways of seeing"

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I then kind of thought about the other cieits in Europe where I spend a lot of time looking for diesgn, like Basel, where Vitra is located, or in northern ilaty — all cities where there are a whole lot of bicycles, and where pedestrian areas — and I came to the conclusion that perhaps there was something about these important design centers that dealt with bicycles and foot traffic, and I'm sure the skeptic eye would say, no, the cortieraoln there is that there are universities and schools where people can't aforfd cars, but it did seem that in many of these areas pdsietrean traffic was protected. You wouldn't look at this and call this a designer bike: a designer bike is made of titanium or molybdenum. But I began looking at design in a place like Amsterdam and recognized, you know, the first job of design is to svree a social purpose. And so I look at this bike as not being a designer bike, but being a very good example of design.

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I then kind of thought about the other ______ in Europe where I spend a lot of time looking for ______, like Basel, where Vitra is located, or in northern _____ — all cities where there are a whole lot of bicycles, and where pedestrian areas — and I came to the conclusion that perhaps there was something about these important design centers that dealt with bicycles and foot traffic, and I'm sure the skeptic eye would say, no, the ___________ there is that there are universities and schools where people can't ______ cars, but it did seem that in many of these areas __________ traffic was protected. You wouldn't look at this and call this a designer bike: a designer bike is made of titanium or molybdenum. But I began looking at design in a place like Amsterdam and recognized, you know, the first job of design is to _____ a social purpose. And so I look at this bike as not being a designer bike, but being a very good example of design.

Solution

  1. italy
  2. afford
  3. design
  4. serve
  5. cities
  6. pedestrian
  7. correlation

Original Text

I then kind of thought about the other cities in Europe where I spend a lot of time looking for design, like Basel, where Vitra is located, or in northern Italy — all cities where there are a whole lot of bicycles, and where pedestrian areas — and I came to the conclusion that perhaps there was something about these important design centers that dealt with bicycles and foot traffic, and I'm sure the skeptic eye would say, no, the correlation there is that there are universities and schools where people can't afford cars, but it did seem that in many of these areas pedestrian traffic was protected. You wouldn't look at this and call this a designer bike: a designer bike is made of titanium or molybdenum. But I began looking at design in a place like Amsterdam and recognized, you know, the first job of design is to serve a social purpose. And so I look at this bike as not being a designer bike, but being a very good example of design.

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