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From the Ted Talk by Teddy Cruz: How architectural innovations migrate across borders

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So while, as an architect, this is a very compelling thing to witness, this creative intelligence, I also want to keep myself in check. I don't want to romanticize poverty. I just want to suggest that this informal urbanization is not just the image of precariousness, that informality here, the ________, is really a set of socioeconomic and political procedures that we could translate as artists, that this is about a bottom-up ____________ that performs. See here, _________ are not important just for their looks, but, in fact, they are important for what they can do. They truly perform as they transform through time and as communities negotiate the spaces and boundaries and _________.

Solution


  1. buildings
  2. resources
  3. informal
  4. urbanization

Original Text


So while, as an architect, this is a very compelling thing to witness, this creative intelligence, I also want to keep myself in check. I don't want to romanticize poverty. I just want to suggest that this informal urbanization is not just the image of precariousness, that informality here, the informal, is really a set of socioeconomic and political procedures that we could translate as artists, that this is about a bottom-up urbanization that performs. See here, buildings are not important just for their looks, but, in fact, they are important for what they can do. They truly perform as they transform through time and as communities negotiate the spaces and boundaries and resources.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
san diego 6
southern california 4
migrant communities 3
urban crisis 2
latin america 2
small house 2
skateboard park 2
empty space 2
public space 2


Important Words


  1. architect
  2. artists
  3. boundaries
  4. buildings
  5. check
  6. communities
  7. compelling
  8. creative
  9. fact
  10. image
  11. important
  12. informal
  13. informality
  14. intelligence
  15. negotiate
  16. perform
  17. performs
  18. political
  19. poverty
  20. precariousness
  21. procedures
  22. resources
  23. romanticize
  24. set
  25. socioeconomic
  26. spaces
  27. suggest
  28. time
  29. transform
  30. translate
  31. urbanization
  32. witness