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From the Ted Talk by Peter Calthorpe: 7 principles for building better cities

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htlaeh care: we were talking about how do you fix it once we bkroe it — clean the air. Why not just stop polluting? Why not just use our feet and bikes more? And that's a function of the kinds of cities that we shape.

Household costs: 2008 was a mark in time, not of just the financial industry running amok. It was that we were trying to sell too many of the wrong kind of housing: lrage lot, single fmaily, distant, too expensive for the average middle-class family to arffod and, quite frankly, not a good fit to their ltlyisefe anymore. But in order to move inventory, you can discount the faicninng and get it sold. I think that's a lot of what happened. Reducing cost by 10,000 doarlls — remember, in California the madein is 50,000 — this is a big element. That's just cars and utlitiy costs. So the affordable housing advocates, who often sit off in their silos separate from the environmentalists, separate from the politicians, everybody fighting with everyone, now begin to see common cause, and I think the common cause is what really brings about the chagne.

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______ care: we were talking about how do you fix it once we _____ it — clean the air. Why not just stop polluting? Why not just use our feet and bikes more? And that's a function of the kinds of cities that we shape.

Household costs: 2008 was a mark in time, not of just the financial industry running amok. It was that we were trying to sell too many of the wrong kind of housing: _____ lot, single ______, distant, too expensive for the average middle-class family to ______ and, quite frankly, not a good fit to their _________ anymore. But in order to move inventory, you can discount the _________ and get it sold. I think that's a lot of what happened. Reducing cost by 10,000 _______ — remember, in California the ______ is 50,000 — this is a big element. That's just cars and _______ costs. So the affordable housing advocates, who often sit off in their silos separate from the environmentalists, separate from the politicians, everybody fighting with everyone, now begin to see common cause, and I think the common cause is what really brings about the ______.

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Original Text


Health care: we were talking about how do you fix it once we broke it — clean the air. Why not just stop polluting? Why not just use our feet and bikes more? And that's a function of the kinds of cities that we shape.

Household costs: 2008 was a mark in time, not of just the financial industry running amok. It was that we were trying to sell too many of the wrong kind of housing: large lot, single family, distant, too expensive for the average middle-class family to afford and, quite frankly, not a good fit to their lifestyle anymore. But in order to move inventory, you can discount the financing and get it sold. I think that's a lot of what happened. Reducing cost by 10,000 dollars — remember, in California the median is 50,000 — this is a big element. That's just cars and utility costs. So the affordable housing advocates, who often sit off in their silos separate from the environmentalists, separate from the politicians, everybody fighting with everyone, now begin to see common cause, and I think the common cause is what really brings about the change.

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