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From the Ted Talk by James Howard Kunstler: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Open Cloze


So that, you know, the residences make sense deployed in relation to the places of business, of _______ and of governance. We're going to have to re-learn what the building blocks of these things are: the ______, the block, how to _______ public space that's both large and small, the courtyard, the civic ______ and how to really make use of this property. We can see some of the first ideas for retro-fitting some of the catastrophic property that we have in America. The dead malls: what are we going to do with them? Well, in point of fact, most of them are not going to make it. They're not going to be retro-fitted; they're going to be the salvage yards of the ______.

Solution


  1. square
  2. compose
  3. future
  4. street
  5. culture

Original Text


So that, you know, the residences make sense deployed in relation to the places of business, of culture and of governance. We're going to have to re-learn what the building blocks of these things are: the street, the block, how to compose public space that's both large and small, the courtyard, the civic square and how to really make use of this property. We can see some of the first ideas for retro-fitting some of the catastrophic property that we have in America. The dead malls: what are we going to do with them? Well, in point of fact, most of them are not going to make it. They're not going to be retro-fitted; they're going to be the salvage yards of the future.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

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worth caring 6
public space 4
define space 3
public realm 3
create places 2
civic life 2
world war 2
war ii 2
hopeful present 2
target store 2
united states 2
worth defending 2
boston city 2
mutilated urbanism 2
good buildings 2
street trees 2
live closer 2
alternative fuels 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
world war ii 2

Important Words


  1. america
  2. block
  3. blocks
  4. building
  5. business
  6. catastrophic
  7. civic
  8. compose
  9. courtyard
  10. culture
  11. dead
  12. deployed
  13. fact
  14. future
  15. governance
  16. ideas
  17. large
  18. places
  19. point
  20. property
  21. public
  22. relation
  23. residences
  24. salvage
  25. sense
  26. small
  27. space
  28. square
  29. street
  30. yards