重建磨坊河:景观知识普及、环境公正及城市规划与设计

Restoring Mill Creek:Landscape Literacy, Environmental Justice and City Planning and Design

当人类的法律和社会实践忽视自然进程,当规划、设计和建造城市的人士关注于邻里存在的问题,而不能认识其拥有的资源时,就会导致不公正现象。位于费城的磨坊河邻里的故事诠释了是述议题。在这里,高水位和地基失稳所造成的健康和安全危险,加剧了严峻的社会-经济状况和种族歧视。通过规划、设计和社区发展而达到的普及景观知识是认识到存在不公正现象、并加以纠正的一种手段,正如普及文化知识曾经是1950年代和1960年代美国民权运动的基石。

Injustices occur when human law and social practice ignore natural processes and when those who plan, design and build the city focus on a neighborhood＇s problems and fail to recognize its resources. The story of the Mill Creek neighborhood in Philadelphia illustrates these themes.Here harsh socio-economic conditions and racial discrimination are exacerbated by health and safety hazards posed by a high water table and unstable ground. Landscape literacy is a means for recognizing and redressing those injustices through urban planning and design and community development, just as verbal literacy was a cornerstone of the American Civil Rights movement of 1950s and 1960.