本文探讨了城市布局的复杂性与城市规划者在确保当前居民便利与未来需求之间的权衡。通过分析分散布局的城市可能带来的问题，作者倡导有机整合教育、办公、居住和商业区域，以最大化城市居民的便利性。
The layout of a
city（城市应该如何布局？）
In many cities,
planners have laid out schools, homes, shops, offices in specific
areas which were widely separated from each other. Do you think
advantages of this policy overweight disadvantages to the city
residents?
It’s no
exaggeration to say that urban planning is a heart-wringing task
for every city governor. Instead of speaking for the approach –
which I term as the sprawling layout – that separates education
areas, offices, dwelling sites, shops etc. far apart from each
other, I am more inclined to the other way round; that is, to
integrate theses sections organically together to maximise the
convenience for unbanites.
The sprawling
layout of a city means that much land has to be taken over to
construct the urban area, which brings about a bundle of problems.
Their farmland coming to naught, many farmers become city dwellers.
This seemingly honourable and pride-taking title, however, turns
out nothing short of a nightmare for them. With few or no
educational qualifications and special vocational skills, many of
them will be reduced to inferior job seekers who trudge to and fro
to find an average, if not decent, job to sustain their families.
On top of that, environment pollution is likely to be exacerbated
by the emission of rubbish, sewage and exhaust gases from the
wide-stretching urban area.
Cost is another
issue that deserves due attention. With this layout, city planners
have to invest more funds in ameliorating infrastructures like
roads, water supply and drainage system, street lamps, public
transit system, communication facilities, power grid et cetera.
Moreover, a considerable part of the money will have to be
earmarked to employ those city managing and constructing staff,
say, dustmen, policemen, thereby pushing up the personnel cost.
Then think about the cost of time, and imagine how a shopaholic’s
zeal will be dampened the moment she finishes her hour-long ride
from home to the shopping mall, and how a couple will be exhausted
by the routine hassle of driving their kid to school and back
home!
The proponents
of the sprawling city pattern may base their reason on the
assumption that it has durability. They believe that with the
expansion of population in the future, every section of the city
will provide spacious room for the new immigrants, be they
employees, staff of the newly-stationed enterprises, community
residents, or students, to name but a few. Despite this, city
planners must not sacrifice the current generation’s convenience
and life quality to meet the needs of the uncertain future. After
all, they have the ability, and are obliged to balance city’s
layout and citizens’ life quality, and the intangible future is far
from a pretext for their laxity or even inability.
Actually, this
complicated and somehow head-splitting issue simply boils down to
one question: how to construct the city so as to offer the most
possible convenience for urban residents. It indicates that city
governors are expected to be people-oriented when planning the
urban zone, and that all the measures and policies must be carried
out in the best interest of the
unbanites.
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