美国大城市的生与死(中英文)

(

如果可以这样称

呼的话

)

。恰恰相反，正是这个实验室忽略

了对现时生活中成败的研 究；

正是这个实验

室漠视了意外成功之缘由；

< br>也正是这个实验

室，只是在从城镇，郊区，修养地，集会及

梦幻城的行为与表象演绎得来的信条的指

导下

---

或者说任何方面的指导下来运行，

而

不是由城市 本身领导下运行。

(2002.2.14

qq00612

译

)

(13)After

that,

Morningside

Heights

went downhill even faster.

(14)Nor

is

this

an

unfair

or

irrelevant

example.

In

city

after

city,

precisely

the

wrong

areas,

in

the

light

of

planning

theory,

are

decaying.

Less

noticed, but equally significant, in city

after city the wrong areas, in the light

of

planning

theory,

are

refusing

to

decay.

(15)Cities

are

an

immense

laboratory

of

trial

and

error,

failure

and

success,

in city building and city design. This is

the

laboratory

in

which

city

planning

should have been learning and forming

and discipline (if such it can be called)

have ignored the study of success and

failure in real life, have been incurious

about

the

reasons

for

unexpected

success,

and

are

guided

instead

by

principles

derived

from

the

behavior

and

appearance

of

towns,

suburbs,

tuberculosis

sanatoria,

fairs,

and

imaginary

dream

cities

—

from

anything

but

cities

themselves.(2002.2.13)

(16)

If

it

appears

that

the

rebuilt

portions

of

cities

and

the

endless

new

developments

spreading

beyond

the

cities

are

the

reducing

city

and

countryside

alike

to

a

monotonous,

unnourishing gruel, this is not strange,

It

all

comes,

first-,

second-

third-

or

fourth-hand,

out

of

the

same

intellectual

dish

or

mush,

a

mush

in

which

the

qualities,

necessities,

advantages and behavior of great cities

have been behavior of other and more

inert types of settlements.

6

（

16< /p>

）

即便城市重建部分和无止尽更新发展

显 现出不单单使城市与乡村转变为一碗乏

味且无营养的稀粥的情形

,

也不足为奇

.

就

< br>算是碗长智力的玉米粥

,

它也只是按首要

,

次

要

,

再次

,

更次来考虑问题

.

在这碗玉米粥里

,

大城市的质量

,

必要性

,

优点和表征已完 全和

另外的及缺乏活力住宅群落的质量

,

必要性

,

优点和表征完全混淆在一起了

.

(2002.2.15

qq00612

译

)

(17) There is nothing economically or

socially

inevitable

about

either

the

decay of old cities or the fresh-minted

decadence

of

the

new

unurban

urbanization. On the contrary no other

aspect of our economy and society has

been

more

purposefully

manipulated

for

a

full

quarter

of

a

century

to

achieve precisely what we are getting.

Extraordinary

governmental

financial

incentives have been require to achieve

this

degree

of

monotony,

sterility

and

vulgarity.

Decades

of

preaching,

writing and exhorting by experts have

gone

into

convincing

us

and

our

legislators that mush like this must be

good for us, as long as it comes bedded

with grass.

(18)Automobiles

are

often

conveniently

tagged

as

the

villains

responsible for the ills of cities and the

disappointments

and

futilities

of

city

planning.

But

the

destructive

effect

s

of

automobiles

are

much

less

a

cause

than

a

symptom

of

our

incompetence

at

city

building.

Of

cause

planners,

including

the

highwaymen

with

fabulous sums of money and enormous

power at their disposal, are at a loss to

make

automobiles

and

cities

compatible

with one another. They do

not know what to do with automobiles

in cities because they do not know how

to

plan

for

workable

and

vital

cities

anyhow

—

with or without automobiles.

7

(17)

对于旧城衰败和新近城市化 地区刚开始

的衰退

,

经济因素与社会 因素从来都是贯穿

其中。相反

,

在整整

25

年里再也没有其他方

面像经济与社 会这两只手那样一心一意地

致力将城市建设成现在这样。

大量的 政府财

政支出用以成就今日城市之千篇一律，

缺乏

活力

,

鄙陋不堪的状况。

数十年来，专家们

的说教、

著述、

劝诫使得立法者和我们相信

像上述玉米粥那样的城市只要铺满草坪，

就

一定有利于我们。

(2002.2. 18 qq00612

译

)

（

18

）

人们出于方便

,

将城市弊端和城市规划

中的败笔及令人失望处归咎于小汽车 的不

是。但与其说汽车是造成这种局面的原因，

还不如说是我们 在城市建设方面无能的一

种表征。

当然规划者，包括拥有惊人钱 财和

庞大处置权的拦路抢劫犯，

都不知如何使小

汽车同城市相互兼容。

他们不知如何对付城

市里的汽车 问题因为他们不知如何规划运

行良好，

充满活力的城市