城市规划专业英语翻译精品.doc

Chapter one: Evolution and Trends ARTICLE: The Evolution of Modern Urban Planning It’s very difficult to give a definition to modern urban planning, from origin to today, modern urban planning is more like an evolving and changing process, and it will continue evolving and changing. Originally, modern urban planning was emerged to resolve the problems brought by Industrial Revolution; it was physical and technical with focus on land-use. Then with the economic, social, political and technical development for over one hundred years, today’s city is a complex system which contains many elements that are related to each other. And urban planning is not only required to concern with the build environment, but also relate more to economic, social and political conditions. 这是非常困难的给予定义，以现代城市规划，从起源到今天，现代城市规划更像是一个不断发展和变化的过程，它会继续发展和变化。本来，现代城市规划的出现，以解决工业革命所带来的问题，它是物理和与土地利用的重点技术。然后，随着经济，社会，政治和技术超过百年的发展，今天的城市是一个复杂的系统包含哪些是相互关联的许多内容。而城市规划不仅要关注与构建环境，而且还涉及更多的经济，社会和政治条件。In human history, Industrial Revolution is always viewed as a turning point because it brought tremendous changes to the world. At the beginning, it was just like a myth because machine could produce manufactured goods more quickly than the human hand. Following that, a large number of factories appeared and a large amount of people left their agriculture land to the factories. This process is called industrialization. It brought with the rapid economic growth, the expansion of city and the immigration of population. Large scale population growth in city and without any planning caused many problems, especially in the living condition —— the industrial cities became drab, polluted, unsafe and unhealthy. 在人类历史上，工业革命总是视为一个转折点，因为它带来的巨大变化给世界。一开始，它简直就像一个神话，因为机器可以生产制成品的速度比人的手。随后，大量的工厂出现，大量的人离开了他们的农业土地给工厂。这个过程被称为产业化。它带来了经济的快速增长，城市扩张和人口移民。大规模的城市，没有任何规划人口增长造成了许多问题，特别是在生活条件 - 工业城市成为单调，污染，不安全和不健康的。With social reform movement, early modern urban planning was concentrated on dealing with the problems of housing, sanitation and i