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From the Ted Talk by Mark Raymond: Victims of the city


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But as we all know, that process grew also on a kind of macro scale as well. We have the evolution and the development of this big conurbation that stretches from Port of Spain to the west and over to Arouca in the east and seems to be continuing. So we've dploeveed into this concept or idea that far exceeds the original Laws of the Indies plan. And it's turend into a complex arrangement and matrix of infrastructures and ceplmox issues, isseus that, in many ways, have led to a lot of problems. They've led to a lot of infrastructural problems. And we share this with many, many cities in the world. Cities all over the world are expanding, they're increasing, they're undergoing the same type of dmepnoeevlt that we've undergone to the point where the original Port of Spain and the downtown Port of Spain that used to comprise the city, used to constitute the city, has now turned into this sort of megalopolis, this sprawl, and it's dfiifclut to cpeonrehmd. And when we think of the polrebms, we think of the istrarfuurtncal problems: the water, the power, the traffic congestion, the crime, the segregation, the paairztlooin that exists, the situation that has led to what's happened in this country recently with the state of emergency ... Sometimes it seems completely insurmountable. It seems like we've got to a point where we can't really control it in the way that we can control that original plan. We can't really control this anymore. It's almost as if we're viimcts of the city, rather than people that have willingly or willfully degnsied the city or formulated the city.

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But as we all know, that process grew also on a kind of macro scale as well. We have the evolution and the development of this big conurbation that stretches from Port of Spain to the west and over to Arouca in the east and seems to be continuing. So we've _________ into this concept or idea that far exceeds the original Laws of the Indies plan. And it's ______ into a complex arrangement and matrix of infrastructures and _______ issues, ______ that, in many ways, have led to a lot of problems. They've led to a lot of infrastructural problems. And we share this with many, many cities in the world. Cities all over the world are expanding, they're increasing, they're undergoing the same type of ___________ that we've undergone to the point where the original Port of Spain and the downtown Port of Spain that used to comprise the city, used to constitute the city, has now turned into this sort of megalopolis, this sprawl, and it's _________ to __________. And when we think of the ________, we think of the _______________ problems: the water, the power, the traffic congestion, the crime, the segregation, the ____________ that exists, the situation that has led to what's happened in this country recently with the state of emergency ... Sometimes it seems completely insurmountable. It seems like we've got to a point where we can't really control it in the way that we can control that original plan. We can't really control this anymore. It's almost as if we're _______ of the city, rather than people that have willingly or willfully ________ the city or formulated the city.

Solution


  1. developed
  2. victims
  3. polarization
  4. problems
  5. difficult
  6. issues
  7. complex
  8. comprehend
  9. development
  10. infrastructural
  11. turned
  12. designed

Original Text


But as we all know, that process grew also on a kind of macro scale as well. We have the evolution and the development of this big conurbation that stretches from Port of Spain to the west and over to Arouca in the east and seems to be continuing. So we've developed into this concept or idea that far exceeds the original Laws of the Indies plan. And it's turned into a complex arrangement and matrix of infrastructures and complex issues, issues that, in many ways, have led to a lot of problems. They've led to a lot of infrastructural problems. And we share this with many, many cities in the world. Cities all over the world are expanding, they're increasing, they're undergoing the same type of development that we've undergone to the point where the original Port of Spain and the downtown Port of Spain that used to comprise the city, used to constitute the city, has now turned into this sort of megalopolis, this sprawl, and it's difficult to comprehend. And when we think of the problems, we think of the infrastructural problems: the water, the power, the traffic congestion, the crime, the segregation, the polarization that exists, the situation that has led to what's happened in this country recently with the state of emergency ... Sometimes it seems completely insurmountable. It seems like we've got to a point where we can't really control it in the way that we can control that original plan. We can't really control this anymore. It's almost as if we're victims of the city, rather than people that have willingly or willfully designed the city or formulated the city.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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  24. east
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