来自好莱坞的讯息：拥抱过去塑造城市未来_公共英语阅读理解

来自好莱坞的讯息：拥抱过去塑造城市未来

联合国经济和社会事务部在最新发布的年度《世界城镇化展望报告》中预计，很多东南亚国家的城市将在2017年至2025年间经历两位数的人口增长。印度尼西亚雅加达的人口预计将增长22%，从1030万增至1260万。菲律宾马尼拉的人口预计将增长17.4%，从1290万增至1520万。泰国曼谷的人口预计增长11.2%，从930万增至1100万。

A recent United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs' annual World Urbanization Prospects report projects that many of Southeast Asia's cities will experience double-digit growth between 2017 and 2025. Jakarta, Indonesia is expected to grow 22%, from 10.3 to 12.6 million. Manila, in the Philippines, is projected to grow 17.4%, from 12.9 to 15.2 million people; and Bangkok, Thailand, 11.2%, from 9.3 to 11.0 million.

这种大规模的城镇化进程是以该地区建筑式样的丰富和文化结构的质地为代价的。随着城市规划者们寻求实现更新、更整洁同时也更无生趣的现代城市愿景，街头小贩们被迫从一些城市消失。同时，随着街头生活的消失，令这些城市充满独特韵味的曾经长期存在、充满活力的社区即便不会立即消失，也面临着生存威胁。

This rampant urbanization has come at the expense of the region's architectural richness and cultural fabric. Street vendors have been banished in parts of some cities as urban planners seek to impose a new, cleaner, but perhaps more sterile, vision of the modern city. And, as street life has disappeared, the longstanding, vibrant communities that made these cities unique have also come under threat, if not vanished.