上海市苏州河两岸城市设计

URBAN DESIGN ON SHANGHAI SUZHOU CREEK URBAN DESIGN

随着城市的发展,数个世纪的人类活动试图驯服苏州河,将本是该地区复杂流域的重要组成部分转变为用于运输货物和原料的工程运河.确切地说,苏州河常被视作上海现代民族工业的原动力之一.然而,在近代上海人的记忆中,它已是被遗忘的角落,且危害公众健康——尤其对于城市中的贫困和弱势群体来说.

As the city was settled, centuries of human manipulation sought to contain the creek, transforming it from a critical component of the re-gion＇s complex watershed into a highly engineered canal used to trans-port goods and materials. In fact, Suzhou Creek is often credited as one of the primary drivers of Shanghai＇s modern industrialization. For recent generations of Shanghainese, however, it is remembered as a wasteland, culminating in a public health hazard that disproportionately affected the city＇s poorest and most vulnerable.