外文翻译--城市重建，过去与现在.docVIP

本科毕业设计（论文） 外 文 翻 译 原文： URBAN REDEVELOPMENT,PAST AND PRESENT Urban “redevelopment” has emerged, in recent years, as one of the key concerns of urban social science in both theoretical and empirical-based settings. This reflects a concomitant trend associated with urban studies more generally,toward specifying the economic, political, and cultural factors responsible for uneven metropolitan development. Indeed, even a causal look at our metropolitan areas reveals that they are composed of many different cities and spatial forms that divided according to different land uses as well as related to patterns of race and class. One city is reserved for the rich and affluent; another is composed of working-class and middle-class neighborhoods; other areas cater to commercial interests, entertainment, tourists, and consumers; and still others languish in chronic disinvestment and decay, reserved for the homeless, the poor, minorities, and the urban underclass. These contrasts are quite graphic,as anyone touring our metropolitan areas can attest, and represents an extreme crisis of inequality produced by the uneven nature of metropolitan development and growth. The city continues to provide the prime socio-spatial context within which economic and political elites and ordinary people construct and act out the processes of disinvestment, fiscal crisis, and inner city “renaissance.” In recent years, scholars have begun to study redevelopment with an eye toward clarifying the links between macrostructural processes, specific urban redevelopment efforts, and locally lived realities. This review issue will therefore consider the significance of urban redevelopment as a focus for urban theory and urban research, outlining what such theoretical and methodological contributions and changes may mean for the future of urban scholarship. The study of cities, urbanism, and urban change – redevelopment, disinvestment,and so on – has a rich tradition in urban scholarship. Europeans such