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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Review
Reviewed Work: Urbanism and Its End by Douglas W. Rae
Review by: Christopher Leo
Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine
Vol. 33, No. 1 (Fall 2004 automne), pp. 52-53
Published by: Urban History Review
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/43560115
Page Count: 2
In at least one instance, he allows his managerial expertise to crowd out a wider perspective. He argues—against the academic conventional wisdom and in favour of the "practical" one—that the most dramatic impact of automobiles was not to draw residents out of the city, but to inundate city centres with traffic (223-30). In this case, the academics seem to have the stronger case. The suggestion that traffic congestion kills cities flies in the face of the obvious fact that all of the most successful cities suffer from serious congestion, while unsuccessful cities build roads in vain, in many cases until there is no city centre left.
第二段,主要是书评人A对作者R这个非传统观点的批判,注意看这里的标点符号,这段有大段的引号来引述书评人的原文,也就是书评人的观点。书评人A的观点总结起来,就是汽车给城市带来的没落,并不是一概而论。有的城市,尤其大城市(如纽约、东京、多伦多)就算汽车拥堵和难停车,城市也不会因为这些问题受太多本质的负面影响。只有在特定的城市,堵车停车这些问题才会有很大影响 -- 举例讲蒙特利尔,每当大家谈到开车去市中心,别人都会笑的,因为那地方停车实在太难。
If we could find an example of an obviously successful city— say New York, Tokyo, London, Toronto—whose economy was harmed by excess traffic, the road engineers' argument might gain a small measure of credibility. Ordinary observation, however, suggests that complaints about traffic and parking are not a major concern in those cities that actually have serious traffic and parking problems, but are a constant refrain in the New Havens and the Winnipegs of this world.
My observations in research in Winnipeg, Toronto, and Vancouver suggest to me that, rather than traffic being a cause of city failure, complaints about traffic and parking are symptoms of city failure. In Winnipeg, complaints about parking that would be considered laughable in Vancouver are offered as reasons for not spending time in a downtown that is beset by decay.
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