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From the Ted Talk by Paul Romer: The world's first charter city?

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Now this might sound preposterous to you if you've never _______ about new cities. But just substitute apartment building for cities. _______ half the people who wanted to be in apartments already had them; the other half aren't there yet. You could try and expand the capacity by doing additions on all the existing apartments. But you know what you'd run into is those __________ and the surrounding areas have _____ to _____ discomfort and the distractions of construction. So it's extremely hard to do all of those additions. But you could go out _________ brand new, build a brand new apartment building, as long as the rules there were ones that facilitated construction rather than getting in the way. So I proposed that governments create new reform zones big enough to hold ______ and gave them a name: charter cities.

Solution


  1. cities
  2. thought
  3. someplace
  4. avoid
  5. rules
  6. imagine
  7. apartments

Original Text


Now this might sound preposterous to you if you've never thought about new cities. But just substitute apartment building for cities. Imagine half the people who wanted to be in apartments already had them; the other half aren't there yet. You could try and expand the capacity by doing additions on all the existing apartments. But you know what you'd run into is those apartments and the surrounding areas have rules to avoid discomfort and the distractions of construction. So it's extremely hard to do all of those additions. But you could go out someplace brand new, build a brand new apartment building, as long as the rules there were ones that facilitated construction rather than getting in the way. So I proposed that governments create new reform zones big enough to hold cities and gave them a name: charter cities.

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