绿道网的地域系统——如果你可以在路易斯做到，你能在任何地方做到外文翻译.doc

绿道网的地域系统——如果你可以在路易斯做到，你能在任何地方做到外文翻译 毕业论文外文翻译 外文题目:Regional System of Greenways--If You Can Make It in St. Louis, You Can Make It Anywhere出 处: WILEY INTERSCIENCE 作 者:W. SCOTT KRUMMENACHER, TODD SWANSTROM AND MARK TRANEL 原 文: Regional System of Greenways--If You Can Make It in St. Louis, You Can Make It Anywhere ABSTRACT Since the 1990s, regions around the country have turned to greenways as the latest trend in park development. Usually developed along streams or abandoned rail lines as linear parks, greenways respond to the rising demand for active outdoor recreation such as jogging and cross-country skiing. From the proposed Catawba Regional Trail in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area to Denver’s Cherry Creek Greenway to San Antonio’s celebrated Riverwalk, connected greenways are increasingly seen as the amenity no twenty-first century metropolitan area can do without. In MetroGreen, a study of greenways in ten U.S. and Canadian cities, planner Donna Erickson concludes that greenways generate economic, environmental, and social vitality by increasing the connections among people and places. Supporters stress that greenways increase land values and development opportunities. Since the time of Frederick Law Olmsted, the “proximate principle” has been well known: properties located in proximity to parks enjoy higher market values. And the resulting increased property tax revenues can help pay for park development and maintenance. According to the “edge effect,” greenways have a distinct advantage over traditional parks. As linear parks, greenways generate longer edges, or borders, than conventional parks. John Crompton observed that a one-hundred-acre park composed of a string of one hundred connected square acres generates 5.65 times more edge than a circular one-hundred-acre park. The edge effect has long guided the layout of golf courses that are incorporated into real estate developments. About half of all new golf courses are part of