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Aristotle wrote that men come together in cities to live, but stay in them to live the good life. It was the Greeks who invented

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问题     Aristotle wrote that men come together in cities to live, but stay in them to live the good life. It was the Greeks who invented the idea of the city, and urbanity continues as a thriving tradition. But in the first decade of the 21st century, urban life is changing. "Cities are now junctions in the flows of people, information, finance and freight," says Nigel Harris, a professor of development planning. "They’re less and less places where people live and work. "
    The enlargement of the European Union in December in 2002 has given residents of up to 13 new member nations freedom of movement within its borders. At the same time, an additional 13. 5 million immigrants a year will be needed in the EU just to keep a stable ratio between workers and pensioners over the next half century. All this mobility will make Europe’s cities nodes of nomadism, linked to each other by high-speed trains and cheap airline flights. The bustle around airports and train stations will make the crowds in Europe’s great piazza look thin by comparison. Urban designers, with a freshly pricked interest in transience rather than stasis, are even now dreaming up cityscapes that focus on flows of people and fungible uses for buildings.
    Public spaces are due for a revamp. Earlier architects conceived of train stations as single buildings; today’s designers are thinking of them as transit zones that link to the city around them, pouring travelers into bus stations and surrounding shops. In Amsterdam, urban planner Ben van Berkel, codirector of the design firm UN Studio, has developed what he calls Deep Planning Strategy, which inverts the traditional "top down" approach: The creation of a space comes before the flow of people through it. With 3-D modeling and animation, he’s able to look at different population groups use public spaces at different times of the day. He uses the data to design spaces that accommodate mobs at rush hour and sparser crowds at other times.
    The growing mobility of Europe has inspired a debate about the look and feel of urban sprawl. "Up until now, all our cultural heritage has been concentrated in the city center," notes Prof. Heinrich Moding of the German Institute of Urban Affairs. "But we’ve got to imagine how it’s possible to have joyful vibrancy in these outlying parts, so that they’re not just about garages, highways and gasoline tanks. " The designs of new buildings are also changing to anticipate the emerging city as a way station. Buildings have been seen as disconnecting, isolating, defining. But increasingly, the quality of space that’s in demand is movement.
Which one of the following correctly describes Ben van Berkel’s Deep Planning Strategy?
选项 A、The creation of public spaces should base on information about the flow of people.
B、The creation of public spaces should come before the people move into the city.
C、The creation of public spaces should make full use of 3-D animation technology.
D、The creation of public spaces should take into account the working hours of the inhabitants.
答案A
解析 下列哪项准确描述了本·冯·伯克尔的深层设计策略?[A]公共空间的创造应当基于人口流动的相关信息。[B]公共空间的创造应当在人们涌人城市之前完成。[C]公共空间的创造应当充分利用三维动画技术。[D]公共空间的创造应当考虑居民的工作时间。文章指出，传统的自上而下的方式是在人群流经之前先规划出空间，而本·冯·伯克尔的策略正好与此相反，他是先分析一天内不同的人群在不同的时间内对公共空间的使用情况，然后再规划空间，所以本题的正确答案为[A]。
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