考研優(yōu)美英語(yǔ)作文背誦004

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Suburbanization

If by "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidlythan its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization beganduring the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of thenineteenth century. Before that period the city was a small highly compactcluster in which people moved about on foot and goods were conveyed byhorse and cart.
But the early factories built in the 1830's and 1840's were located along  waterways and near railheads at the edges of cities, and housingwas needed for the thousands of people drawn by the prospect of employment. Intime, the factories were surrounded by proliferating mill towns ofapartments and    row houses that abutted the older, main cities. As a defense against this encroachment and to enlarge theirtax bases, the cities appropriated their industrial neighbors.In1854, for example, the city of Philadelphia annexed most of Philadelphia County. Similar municipal maneuvers took place in Chicago and in New York. Indeed, mostgreat cities of the United States achieved such status only byincorporating the communities along their borders.
With theacceleration of industrial growth came acute urban crowding andaccompanying social stress -- conditions that began to approach disastrousproportions when, in 1888, the first commercially successful  electric traction line was developed. Within   a few years   the horse-drawn trolleyswere retired and electric streetcar networks crisscrossed and connectedevery major urban area, fostering a wave of suburbanization that transformed the compact industrial city into a dispersed metropolis.Thisfirst phase of mass-scale suburbanization was reinforced by the simultaneous emergence of the urban Middle Class, whose desires forhomeownership in neighborhoods far from the aging inner city were satisfied bythe developers of single-family housingtracts.
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　　郊區(qū)的發(fā)展如果"郊區(qū)"指的是比已建好的城市內(nèi)部發(fā)展更為迅速的城市邊緣地帶，那么郊區(qū)化可以說(shuō)始于 1825 年至 1850 年工業(yè)化城市出現(xiàn)期間。
　　在這之前，城市只是高度密集的小聚居群。在其中，人們步行走動(dòng)，商品靠馬車(chē)來(lái)運(yùn)送。但是建于 18 世紀(jì)三四十年代的早期工廠位于城邊的航道和鐵路附近，被工作機(jī)會(huì)吸引到這里的成千上萬(wàn)的人們需要住房。漸漸地，在與舊有的主要城區(qū)相毗鄰的地方，不斷涌現(xiàn)出由排房和公寓樓組成的工人聚居區(qū)，包圍了工廠。作為對(duì)這種侵蝕的自衛(wèi)，也為了擴(kuò)大它們收稅的地域范圍，城市吞并了工業(yè)化的臨近地帶，比如 1854 年費(fèi)城的城區(qū)就兼并了費(fèi)縣的絕大部分地區(qū)。相似的城市化也發(fā)生在芝加哥和紐約。今天很多美國(guó)的大城市其實(shí)就是靠吞并它們附近的邊緣地區(qū)而變成大都會(huì)的。隨著工業(yè)化的加速發(fā)展，城市里出現(xiàn)了嚴(yán)重?fù)頂D和相伴而來(lái)的社會(huì)壓力。當(dāng)1888 年第一條商業(yè)上成功的電氣化鐵軌被制造出來(lái)時(shí)，壓力開(kāi)始接近危機(jī)的程度。幾年之內(nèi)，馬車(chē)就被廢棄了，電車(chē)網(wǎng)相互交織連接著各個(gè)重要的城區(qū)，從而形成了一種郊區(qū)化的潮流，即密集的工業(yè)城市轉(zhuǎn)變成了分散的都市。
　　此時(shí)城市中產(chǎn)階級(jí)的出現(xiàn)進(jìn)一步加強(qiáng)了第一波大規(guī)模郊區(qū)化。這些中產(chǎn)階級(jí)希望在遠(yuǎn)離老舊城市的地區(qū)擁有住宅，單一家庭住宅地區(qū) 的開(kāi)發(fā)者滿足了他們的愿望。

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