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From the Ted Talk by Jeff Speck: 4 ways to make a city more walkable

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So I'm here to talk to you about the walkable city. What is the walkable city? Well, for want of a better definition, it's a city in which the car is an optional instrument of freedom, rather than a prosthetic dicvee. And I'd like to talk about why we need the waklblae city, and I'd like to talk about how to do the walkable city.

Most of the tkals I give these days are about why we need it, but you guys are smart. And also I gave that talk exactly a mntoh ago, and you can see it at TED.com. So today I want to talk about how to do it. In a lot of time tknhinig about this, I've come up with what I call the geernal theory of walkability. A bit of a pretentious term, it's a little tongue-in-cheek, but it's something I've thought about for a long time, and I'd like to share what I think I've figured out.

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So I'm here to talk to you about the walkable city. What is the walkable city? Well, for want of a better definition, it's a city in which the car is an optional instrument of freedom, rather than a prosthetic ______. And I'd like to talk about why we need the ________ city, and I'd like to talk about how to do the walkable city.

Most of the _____ I give these days are about why we need it, but you guys are smart. And also I gave that talk exactly a _____ ago, and you can see it at TED.com. So today I want to talk about how to do it. In a lot of time ________ about this, I've come up with what I call the _______ theory of walkability. A bit of a pretentious term, it's a little tongue-in-cheek, but it's something I've thought about for a long time, and I'd like to share what I think I've figured out.

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  1. walkable
  2. device
  3. month
  4. talks
  5. general
  6. thinking

Original Text


So I'm here to talk to you about the walkable city. What is the walkable city? Well, for want of a better definition, it's a city in which the car is an optional instrument of freedom, rather than a prosthetic device. And I'd like to talk about why we need the walkable city, and I'd like to talk about how to do the walkable city.

Most of the talks I give these days are about why we need it, but you guys are smart. And also I gave that talk exactly a month ago, and you can see it at TED.com. So today I want to talk about how to do it. In a lot of time thinking about this, I've come up with what I call the general theory of walkability. A bit of a pretentious term, it's a little tongue-in-cheek, but it's something I've thought about for a long time, and I'd like to share what I think I've figured out.

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