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本帖最后由 wuziqing1498 于 2009-3-1 03:01 编辑
这篇是我迄今最满意的也改过最多遍了,希望大家提提建议哦。
Issue26
Most people would agree that buildings represent a valuable record of any society’s past, but controversy arises when old buildings stand on ground that modern planners feel could be better used for modern purpose. In such situations, modern development should be given precedence over the preservation (of historic buildings so that contemporary needs can be served.
To decide how the ground occupied by old buildings can be best used, we had better first of all figure out contemporary needs, which might be limited to the replacement of modern building by others holding controversial idea. The relevant needs, in my opinion, require all-cross consideration ranging from the developed usage of old ones to the potential development after tearing them down.
In my opinion, when considering which to give the precedence, the determing criteria should be set in how we can best use the land and consequently benefit more from it, according to my understanding of contemporary needs. Since the uncertainty of replaced new one, I will start the comparison with the traditional houses.
Therefore, I agree with the speaker’s description of building remains as a precious record of past, which according to my knowledge, reflects history including ideas and preferences at least of the house designer, the style and form popular or ignored at that time as well as a reminder of significant historical events. Buildings in Tianjing province of China left by the foreign predators in the eighteenth century can illustrate the point well. At the sight of them, we remember the time when Chinese was at the mercy of other stronger countries and which consequently encourages us to make our decisions of struggling for the prosperity of China. Also, different styles and ideas from that of our local ones entitle those houses a value of appreciation and learning. You may find yourself broaden the horizons instead of limiting to the alternatively monotonous and unaltered thought. Sometimes we even regard visiting those constructions as a traveling part and those learning majoring in designing houses and cultures can always attain aspiration through making a deep research into them. With regards to all these apparent functions, how can one insist the winner is always the future alternative one with the imagination regardless of the possible interrupt factors?
one might argue that the advantages I mentioned above only go with some buildings while most are the cases that they are silent with no people visiting. Absolutely right, then comes to the question, what the modern planners indeed should do? Tearing down all of them without further investigation? Or will be the modern needs satisfied better with some detailed information revealled? The common sense give us examples of thrive after developed. Development like promotion and advertisement widen the realization of their presence is far better than leaving them alone or only having several historians studying for their possible function. As the prestige grows, the foregoing advantages will be found out and taken of or produced if undeveloped. Measures can be taken according to respective ones such as opening certain courses appreciating from the foreign building in schools, changing their surrounding environment so that traveling industry can boom there, which on the (other) hand bring profits to the country. Comparing with the unguaranteed benefits of using the ground with wholly different ways, Do you think you can expect more from the simple added action?
So as a modern planner, instead of regarding the traditional building as a block of meeting contemporary requirement, should do more investigation about them so that right decision can be made, investigations made according to their features and underling. For the sake of all living humans, Those Investigations should be not only from historians, but also psychologists, investors, connoisseurs and so on. Ideas of the customer and at-school learners should also be taken into account. Only through all this action, will they determine how to copy with the historical buildings.
undoubtly, we cannot neglect the limitation of the findings although they are put forward by mixed wisdoms and ideas, for mistakes about leaving out some deeply-hidden potential may be made since we humans are imperfect, which is a fact we can never alter. The only thing we can alter is to try our best to make a decision as comprehensible as possible so that complaint from people of all inquiry will be decreased to the minimum.
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