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From the Ted Talk by Jota Samper: The informal settlements reshaping the world


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Of course, I don't want to romanticize these solutions, as they are the reulst of innovation out of dramatic suffering. But what I want to say is that there is much that we could learn from them. In fact, I think there are some that are already learning. I argue that today, some of the most disruptive urban products, such as the ride apps, similar to the moto-taxis, or the home-sharing economy, similar to the self-financing urban meodl in imrnfaol settlements, started decades ago in the cneinofs of informal sttemneetls. If we pay more attention to visibilizing these invisible populations, we will not only have the opportunity to surpopt the effort of billions, but we could learn from them how we can change the planet.

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Of course, I don't want to romanticize these solutions, as they are the ______ of innovation out of dramatic suffering. But what I want to say is that there is much that we could learn from them. In fact, I think there are some that are already learning. I argue that today, some of the most disruptive urban products, such as the ride apps, similar to the moto-taxis, or the home-sharing economy, similar to the self-financing urban _____ in ________ settlements, started decades ago in the ________ of informal ___________. If we pay more attention to visibilizing these invisible populations, we will not only have the opportunity to _______ the effort of billions, but we could learn from them how we can change the planet.

Solution


  1. confines
  2. result
  3. informal
  4. support
  5. model
  6. settlements

Original Text


Of course, I don't want to romanticize these solutions, as they are the result of innovation out of dramatic suffering. But what I want to say is that there is much that we could learn from them. In fact, I think there are some that are already learning. I argue that today, some of the most disruptive urban products, such as the ride apps, similar to the moto-taxis, or the home-sharing economy, similar to the self-financing urban model in informal settlements, started decades ago in the confines of informal settlements. If we pay more attention to visibilizing these invisible populations, we will not only have the opportunity to support the effort of billions, but we could learn from them how we can change the planet.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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informal settlements 22
extreme poverty 3
city making 3
infrastructure improvements 3
environmental design 2
unique process 2
informal city 2
disruptive urban 2
urban model 2

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collocation frequency
informal city making 2


Important Words


  1. apps
  2. argue
  3. attention
  4. billions
  5. change
  6. confines
  7. decades
  8. disruptive
  9. dramatic
  10. economy
  11. effort
  12. fact
  13. informal
  14. innovation
  15. invisible
  16. learn
  17. learning
  18. model
  19. opportunity
  20. pay
  21. planet
  22. populations
  23. products
  24. result
  25. ride
  26. romanticize
  27. settlements
  28. similar
  29. solutions
  30. started
  31. suffering
  32. support
  33. today
  34. urban
  35. visibilizing