[day2477 2021-07-07]
Lesson16-2 The modern city现代城市
The shape and dimensions of the skyscrapers depend entirely on the
necessity of obtaining the maximum income per square foot of ground,
and of offering to the tenants offices and apartments that please
them. This caused the construction of gigantic buildings where too
large masses of human beings are crowded together. Civilized men like
such a way of living. While they enjoy the comfort and banal luxury of
their dwelling, they do not realize that they are deprived of the
necessities of life. The modern city consists of monstrous edifices and
of dark, narrow streets full of petrol fumes and toxic gases, torn by the
noise of the taxi-cabs, lorries and buses and thronged ceaselessly by
great crowds. Obviously, it has not been planned for the good of its inhabitants.
