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4) Fill in the blanks based on what you listen:
We have ignored humanity in the building of our places on the public spaces for the last 40 years. This is continuing and _______________ the quality of life for more and more Americans and we fundamentally have to change our project of live.
We need to define a new vision for how the people live.
Vision – It’s all about the vision. Whether there’s no vision the people ____________.
For the longest time we were building our buildings, we were building our neighborhoods, in ways that we were completely out of scale of human beings
Every single trip has to be made by the car.
… a powerful man with a powerful car. I wish I wish I wish. I wish I was old and I could drive.
For as long as most Americans can remember, the car has been the icon of the American dream. It _________ our emotions, ________ our notions of freedom, wealth and independence. At the same time it reinforced our vision of a bright and shiny future.
A patriotic vision built with American engineering of knowhow.
In many ways the car has defined us both individually and designation. It’s been a __________ symbol, reviewing our success and proclaiming, “We’ve arrived!”
We gave cars names that symbolize our might and ______________. Names that express our restless ___________________ experiences. A car, a tank of gas and nothing but the open road before you. It gave us a sense of security and achievement. There was no place that you couldn’t go.
We were truly in charge of our destinies. We were free to go where we wanted to go. See what we wanted to see. Do what we wanted to do. And live for where we wanted to live.
Not much has changed in the last fifty years, automakers continue to help us to find ourselves by the _______________ names the cars we drive.
We are _______________, trailblazers. We venture into the unknown. Ford tells us we are explorers, taking excursion on expedition into the uncharged territory.
But with our growing population of more than 300 million and more than 250 million cars and light trucks on our roads, Americans have become slaves to this freedom. What started out as a transportation choice has become our only option. Our love affair with the automobile is ______________.
As population continues to grow in the US which will continue to do we don’t have enough room to accommodate all those cars. We can build the freeways, we can build the roads, and still have places that haven’t any kind of quality and character to life.
For decades the coming solution, to congestion on highways or freeways was adding a lane or adding several lanes. As if continuing adding lanes is going to ___________ the congestion problem. The reality is we know the day that in fact that any lanes only __________________ more congestion. And what’s amazing about it, you think about it, we spend billions of dollars in our road systems and expanding road systems and the planning of this, the planners can project at what point in the time in the future, 20 years from now or 30 years from now, what will may be and we will be at the same point of congestion or worse that we are today. Most of the time we like freeways or elevated freeways. We devalue to use public money to devalue our private real state. It doesn’t sound very American to me.
4) Fill in the blanks based on what you listen:
We have ignored humanity in the building of our places on the public spaces for the last 40 years. This is continuing and _______________ the quality of life for more and more Americans and we fundamentally have to change our project of live.
We need to define a new vision for how the people live.
Vision – It’s all about the vision. Whether there’s no vision the people ____________.
For the longest time we were building our buildings, we were building our neighborhoods, in ways that we were completely out of scale of human beings
Every single trip has to be made by the car.
… a powerful man with a powerful car. I wish I wish I wish. I wish I was old and I could drive.
For as long as most Americans can remember, the car has been the icon of the American dream. It _________ our emotions, ________ our notions of freedom, wealth and independence. At the same time it reinforced our vision of a bright and shiny future.
A patriotic vision built with American engineering of knowhow.
In many ways the car has defined us both individually and designation. It’s been a __________ symbol, reviewing our success and proclaiming, “We’ve arrived!”
We gave cars names that symbolize our might and ______________. Names that express our restless ___________________ experiences. A car, a tank of gas and nothing but the open road before you. It gave us a sense of security and achievement. There was no place that you couldn’t go.
We were truly in charge of our destinies. We were free to go where we wanted to go. See what we wanted to see. Do what we wanted to do. And live for where we wanted to live.
Not much has changed in the last fifty years, automakers continue to help us to find ourselves by the _______________ names the cars we drive.
We are _______________, trailblazers. We venture into the unknown. Ford tells us we are explorers, taking excursion on expedition into the uncharged territory.
But with our growing population of more than 300 million and more than 250 million cars and light trucks on our roads, Americans have become slaves to this freedom. What started out as a transportation choice has become our only option. Our love affair with the automobile is ______________.
As population continues to grow in the US which will continue to do we don’t have enough room to accommodate all those cars. We can build the freeways, we can build the roads, and still have places that haven’t any kind of quality and character to life.
For decades the coming solution, to congestion on highways or freeways was adding a lane or adding several lanes. As if continuing adding lanes is going to ___________ the congestion problem. The reality is we know the day that in fact that any lanes only __________________ more congestion. And what’s amazing about it, you think about it, we spend billions of dollars in our road systems and expanding road systems and the planning of this, the planners can project at what point in the time in the future, 20 years from now or 30 years from now, what will may be and we will be at the same point of congestion or worse that we are today. Most of the time we like freeways or elevated freeways. We devalue to use public money to devalue our private real state. It doesn’t sound very American to me.
