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From the Ted Talk by Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood with imagination, beauty and art

Unscramble the Blue Letters


In some ways, the bank represents a hub, that we're trying to caetre a pretty hardcore node of cultural activity, and that if we could sratt to make multiple hubs and connect some cool geren stuff around there, that the buildings that we've purchased and rehabbed, which is now around 60 or 70 units, that if we could land miniature Versailles on top of that, and connect these buildings by a beautiful greenbelt — (apluspae) — that this place where poeple never wanted to be would become an important destination for folk from all over the ctnruoy and wlord.

In some ways, it feels very much like I'm a potter, that we tackle the things that are at our wheel, we try with the slkil that we have to think about this next bowl that I want to make. And it went from a bowl to a singular house to a block to a neighborhood to a cultural district to tnihking about the city, and at every ponit, there were things that I didn't know that I had to learn. I've never learned so much about zoning law in my life. I never thought I'd have to. But as a result of that, I'm finding that there's not just room for my own aitristc practice, there's room for a lot of other artistic practices.

Open Cloze


In some ways, the bank represents a hub, that we're trying to ______ a pretty hardcore node of cultural activity, and that if we could _____ to make multiple hubs and connect some cool _____ stuff around there, that the buildings that we've purchased and rehabbed, which is now around 60 or 70 units, that if we could land miniature Versailles on top of that, and connect these buildings by a beautiful greenbelt — (________) — that this place where ______ never wanted to be would become an important destination for folk from all over the _______ and _____.

In some ways, it feels very much like I'm a potter, that we tackle the things that are at our wheel, we try with the _____ that we have to think about this next bowl that I want to make. And it went from a bowl to a singular house to a block to a neighborhood to a cultural district to ________ about the city, and at every _____, there were things that I didn't know that I had to learn. I've never learned so much about zoning law in my life. I never thought I'd have to. But as a result of that, I'm finding that there's not just room for my own ________ practice, there's room for a lot of other artistic practices.

Solution


  1. artistic
  2. people
  3. create
  4. world
  5. skill
  6. point
  7. country
  8. green
  9. applause
  10. thinking
  11. start

Original Text


In some ways, the bank represents a hub, that we're trying to create a pretty hardcore node of cultural activity, and that if we could start to make multiple hubs and connect some cool green stuff around there, that the buildings that we've purchased and rehabbed, which is now around 60 or 70 units, that if we could land miniature Versailles on top of that, and connect these buildings by a beautiful greenbelt — (Applause) — that this place where people never wanted to be would become an important destination for folk from all over the country and world.

In some ways, it feels very much like I'm a potter, that we tackle the things that are at our wheel, we try with the skill that we have to think about this next bowl that I want to make. And it went from a bowl to a singular house to a block to a neighborhood to a cultural district to thinking about the city, and at every point, there were things that I didn't know that I had to learn. I've never learned so much about zoning law in my life. I never thought I'd have to. But as a result of that, I'm finding that there's not just room for my own artistic practice, there's room for a lot of other artistic practices.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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archive house 2
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Important Words


  1. activity
  2. applause
  3. artistic
  4. bank
  5. beautiful
  6. block
  7. bowl
  8. buildings
  9. city
  10. connect
  11. cool
  12. country
  13. create
  14. cultural
  15. destination
  16. district
  17. feels
  18. finding
  19. folk
  20. green
  21. greenbelt
  22. hardcore
  23. house
  24. hub
  25. hubs
  26. important
  27. land
  28. law
  29. learn
  30. learned
  31. life
  32. lot
  33. miniature
  34. multiple
  35. neighborhood
  36. node
  37. people
  38. place
  39. point
  40. potter
  41. practice
  42. practices
  43. pretty
  44. purchased
  45. rehabbed
  46. represents
  47. result
  48. room
  49. singular
  50. skill
  51. start
  52. stuff
  53. tackle
  54. thinking
  55. thought
  56. top
  57. units
  58. versailles
  59. wanted
  60. ways
  61. wheel
  62. world
  63. zoning