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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
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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2015-04-10
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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 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.
Prof. Heinrich Moding indicates that
选项
A、the lifestyle and culture of a city should change because of people’s mobility.
B、the suburbs will no longer be the places for garages and highways in the future.
C、the cultural environment will be more attractive than the locational factors.
D、the suburbs will be more prosperous in the future than the city center.
答案
D
解析
海因里希·莫丁教授指出[A]由于人口的流动性,城市的生活方式和文化都应发生变化。[B]未来郊区将不再是停车场和公路的聚集地。[C]文化环境将比本地因素更具有吸引力。[D]将来郊区要比市中心更繁荣。文章中谈论的是由于人口的流动性,城市变为中途停留站,光顾机场和火车站的人越来越多。而机场和火车站一般都处在边远地区,所以边远地区变得越来越有活力,如果再像以前那样将文化遗产集中在市中心,就没有多大的意义。所以本题的正确答案为[D]“将来郊区要比市中心更繁荣”。[A]说的是由于人口的流动性,城市的生活方式和文化都应发生变化。就这一句话本身而言是正确的,但海因里希·莫丁只是说文化遗产将可能向边远地区发展,并没有说城市的文化要发生改变,所以[A]内容不准确。
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