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Let me give you an example of how a city’s surfaces affect the way we live in it. 我来举个例子看看一个城市的外观是如何影响人们生活方式的吧。 When I visited Salamanca in Spain, I gravitated to the Plaza Mayor at all hours of the day. 当我去拜访位于西班牙的萨拉曼卡的时候，我被那里的马约尔广场深深吸引，于是一整天都呆在了那儿。 Early in the morning, sunlight r...

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Imagine that when you walked in here this evening, 想象一下当你在今晚步入这里时， you discovered that everybody in the room looked almost exactly the same: ageless, raceless, generically good-looking. 你发现所有在场的人看上去几乎都一模一样，没有年龄和种族的区别，而且个个天生丽质。 That person sitting right next to you might have the most idiosyncratic inner life...

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So one contemporary equivalent of the Plaza Mayor in Salamanca is the Place de la Défense in Paris, 说一个与萨拉曼卡的马约尔广场相较衡的现代广场，巴黎的协和广场， a windswept, glass-walled open space that office workers hurry through on the way from the metro to their cubicles 一个大风贯通、被玻璃墙围绕的开放空间，办公室白领会迅速从中通过，从地铁站直奔属于他们的办...

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But the truth is that these are mostly one-offs, boutique projects, not easily reproduced at a global scale. 但事实是这些往往都只是个例，精品工程没办法轻易的在全球范围内普及。 And that is the point. When you use materials that have a local significance, you prevent cities from all looking the same. 但这也就是它的意义所在。当你去使用这些具有地方特色的建材时，就能够...

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The firm Ennead clad the Utah Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City in copper and zinc, Ennead公司用铜和锌包裹了位于盐湖城的犹他自然历史博物馆， ores that have been mined in the area for 150 years and that also camouflage the building against the ochre hills 在这里，开采这些矿产的历史已经有150年了，这也将这座建筑巧妙的隐藏于了矿山之中， so that you have a nat...

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But glass has a limited ability to be expressive. 但是玻璃的表现力毕竟是有局限的。 This is a section of wall framing a plaza in the pre-Hispanic city of Mitla, in southern Mexico. 这是在墨西哥南部前西班牙城米特拉一个广场外墙的一部分。 Those 2,000-year-old carvings make it clear that this was a place of high ritual significance. 这些历经2000年的雕纹让这里看起...

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Now, I’m not against glass. It’s an ancient and versatile material. 我并不是反对使用玻璃。玻璃毕竟是一种古老且通用性强的材料。 It’s easy to manufacture and transport and install and replace and clean. 它们易于大量生产、运输、安装、替换和清洁。 It comes in everything from enormous, ultraclear sheets to translucent bricks. 无论是巨大的超洁净面...

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But that’s getting harder to do, because cities are becoming smooth. 但这样的机会已经越来越少了，因为城市正在变得光滑。 New downtowns sprout towers that are almost always made of concrete and steel and covered in glass. 高塔在市中心拔地而起，但却几乎全是有着被玻璃覆盖表面的钢筋混凝土。 You can look at skylines all over the world — Houston, Guangzhou, Frankfurt 看...

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