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7. With the amount of traffic nowadays, even a trip across town is b………….t by/with dangers.
8. Gentrification may be viewed as 'correction' of b……………….g and urban flight.
9. Early 'gentrifiers' may belong to low income artist or b……………..n communities which increase the
attractiveness and flair of a certain quarter
10. When's rush hour in New York City? It can be pretty b……………………..e.
11. Sydney’s pedestrian b………………s, Brisbane’s barren streetscapes and Perth’s freeway fiascos: cities
across the country are making classic mistakes.
12. I'm talking simply about the creative intelligence of the b…………m-up, whether manifested in the
slums of Tijuana (...), or the many migrant neighborhoods in Southern California (...).
13. He's been b…………..g me all morning.
14. The trees are being b……………..d to make way for a new superstore.
15. The housing market remains b……….t.
16. Colorado's b…………………….g marijuana industry had struggled under its own astonishing success
since legal recreational sales began Jan. 1
17. In the absence of a large-scale cleanup, the federal government has issued recommendations
on how to reduce the health risks of living in an area contaminated by toxins and c……….s
18. Both the public and private sectors were c…………….g to give us the lives that we wanted.
19. The festival was a great way for the local c……….y to get together
20. In San Francisco, we use algorithms that can measure and predict the flow of traffic in the future,
and our in advance very accurately to tell the c………….s before they left the houses every day how
long their journey would take and it be affected by congestion that developed after they left the
houses.
26. History will be examined as an ongoing c……s-f…………n of ideas, rather than as a fixed linear
chronology.
27. And people call this Marilyn Monroe Towers because of its c………..e.
28. There’s still too much crime, poverty, and d………y in the neighborhood
29. Environmental d………….n,poverty, and migration, are often hypothesised to be closely connected in
a complex web of mutually aggravating cause and effect relationship.
30. You know, [cities] competing for d………, competing for more space, competing for efficiency.
31. As people move out of the inner city into surrounding regions, the city expands and further
pollution and resource d……….n occurs.
32. Africa is the most affected by d……………..n, and one of the most obvious natural borders on the
landmass is the southern edge of the Sahara desert.
33. for example, and there's people like funeral directors who d………e their entire working lives to this
issue.
34. The hotel we stayed in was really d…………...
35. The recent famine in these parts has caused the d…………..t of tens of thousands
of people.
36. Are we stuck with this d………….n traffic hellscape?
37. Another potential area for development is e…………………….m, because Lithuania has rich national
parks, coastal scenery, lakes and rivers.
38. He pointed to the e……………….e of new forms that had come into existence under the protection of
man.
39. the garage doors that are brought from San Diego in trucks to become the new skin of e…………..y
h…………..g in many of these slums surrounding the edges of Tijuana
50. We can cut down the homicide rate focusing on f…….e cities.
Watch out, those plates are really f…………e.
51. The neighbourhood is a g………d c……….y with a security guard to protect residents from intruders.
52. As the city's G……………..N creeps north, middle-class settlers are renovating and moving into 19th-
century town houses that were once rooming houses.
53. The area where I grew up has been all modernized and g…………..d, and has lost all its old character.
54. Where the g………..o once seemed a menace, threatening to swallow the city like an encroaching
desert, now it often appears, in scholarly articles and the popular press, as an endangered habitat.
55. G…………..n is one of the main exports of the American Midwest.
56. "In an era of high-density urbanization, the urban gr…….n b…….t has taken on new significance"