TED演讲:为何闪亮的玻璃高楼对城市生活有害(2)

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New downtowns sprout¹ towers that are almost always made of concrete and steel and covered in glass. 高塔在市中心拔地而起，但却几乎全是有着被玻璃覆盖表面的钢筋混凝土。

You can look at skylines all over the world -- Houston, Guangzhou, Frankfurt 看看世界各地的城市天际线吧--休斯顿，广州，法兰克福，

and you see the same army of high-gloss robots marching over the horizon. 你会看见那些一模一样的高抛光机器人大军正在水平面上前行。

Now, just think of everything we lose when architects stop using the full range of available materials. 现在，让我们想想当建筑师们不再使用那么多可用的材料时，我们将失去的一切。

When we reject granite² and limestone³ and sandstone and wood and copper⁴ and terra-cotta and brick and wattle and plaster, 当我们抛弃了花岗岩、石灰岩、砂岩、木材、铜片、陶瓦、砖、篱枝或是石膏，

we simplify architecture and we impoverish⁵ cities. 我们简化了这些建筑，我们抛光了整个城市。

It's as if you reduced all of the world's cuisines⁶ down to airline food. 这就好比把世界各地的美食简化成飞机餐。

Chicken or pasta? But worse still,  鸡肉和通心粉二选一？但是更槽糕的是，

assemblies of glass towers like this one in Moscow suggest a disdain⁷ for the civic⁸ and communal⁹ aspects of urban living. Right? 那些像是在莫斯科的这种玻璃高楼的组合，其实暗含着一种对于城市社会生活的歧视。对吧？

Buildings like these are intended to enrich their owners and tenants¹⁰, 像这样的建筑都成为了招揽开发商或是入驻公司的手段，

but not necessarily the lives of the rest of us, those of us who navigate¹¹ the spaces between the buildings. 而它们对于每天穿行其中的我们来说却没有太多存在的意义。

And we expect to do so for free. 而我们正在自觉接受这样免费的存在。

Shiny towers are an invasive species and they are choking our cities and killing¹² off public space. 亮晶晶的高塔是一种入侵物种，而它们的存在窒息了我们的城市，也碾压了我们的公共空间。

We tend to think of a facade¹³ as being like makeup¹⁴, 我们趋向于把建筑的外表当作被粉饰的门面，

a decorative¹⁵ layer applied¹⁶ at the end to a building that's effectively complete. 最后附上的装饰层，会让建筑看起来很完整。

But just because a facade is superficial doesn't mean it's not also deep. 但是一个轻薄的外表并不意味着建筑本身没有深度。

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