Voodoo Cities翻译+原文.doc

英译汉作业 Voodoo Cities 巫毒城市 The quality of urban life and culture have changed markedly throughout the western world since 1972. Before then we had urban renewal, public housing, tearing cities apart to make way for the car, suburbanisation, and mass production of urban environments in soulless modernist style. 自1972年以来整个西方世界的城市生活质量和文化发生了显著的变化。在此之前，我们进行了市区重建，公共住房建设，拆散城市措施，以便给交通让道，利于市郊化和大量生产没有灵魂的现代主义风格的城市设施。 There were abundant signs of unrest (inner city impoverishment, inadequate social provision, radical protest against the homogeneity and blandness of daily life). But they were tempered by a certain political commitment to do something about material needs, albeit within the constraints of the efficient and rational planning of urban life and space. 城市中有很多表明动荡的迹象（内城贫困，社会供应不足，对同质化和日常生活的平淡发起地的激进抗议）。但由于政府特定的政治承诺，即要采取一些有关民众物质需求的办法，以致这些迹象逐渐缓和，虽然仅局限于城市生活和空间的有效而合理的规划。 Since 1972, however, a whole new urban vocabulary has come into play. Words like “gentrification” and “yuppie”， styles like postmodernism, the creation of spaces of play and spectacle, the imitation or preservation of past environments, the ceaseless promotion of almost anything that has glitz and glitter, are just some of the signs of radical change. 然而1972年以来，一个全新的城市词汇已经开始发挥作用。诸如像“绅士化” 和“雅皮士”的词，后现代主义风格，对于游戏和眼镜领域的创造，对于过去城市设施环境的模仿和保留，和对几乎所有发亮发光事物的不断推广，而这些，仅是巨大改变中的一部分迹象而已。 Where we used to think of the city as a machine for working in, we now see it as an antique, a spectacle or even an image for living in. The city is no longer treated as an entity malleable for broad social ends, but as a college of spaces and people, of ephemeral events and fragmentary contacts. 过去我们把城市当做可以在里面工作的机器，而现在视它为可以在其中居住 的一个古董，一个场面或是仅仅一个形象而已。城市不再被当做是可以满足许多社会需求的一个实体，而是一所学院，其间有场地，人群，短暂的事件和零碎的人与人间的接触。 We no longer plan the whole, but design the parts. We no longer renew, we rehabilitate and renovate. Aesthetics dominates ethics. Images dominate the narratives of coherent analysis. And in spite of noble rearguard acti