[雙語翻譯]城市規劃外文翻譯--東南亞店屋作為可持續城市環境的典范

1、3200 英文單詞， 英文單詞，1.8 萬英文字符，中文 萬英文字符，中文 5350 字文獻出處： 文獻出處：Aranha, J. “The Southeast Asian Shophouse As A Model For Sustainable Urban Environments.“ International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics 8.4 (2013): 32

2、5-335.THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN SHOPHOUSE AS A MODEL FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN ENVIRONMENTSJ. ARANHAABSTRACTThe search for innovative ideas and sustainable solutions for urban housing in Southeast Asia as well as other parts of th

3、e world should include reexamining and rediscovering traditional urban dwellings such as the shop- house. Based upon the author’s observation in many parts of Southeast Asia such as Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Indone

4、sia, new housing for lower income populations in urban areas have tended to be high-rise or walkup multistorey flats with little or no commercial space within the developments. These high-density urban dwelling environme

5、nts have the usual problems associated with large-scale high-rise housing projects. They are impersonal, monotonous and boring, and they do not allow much room for individual expression, expansion or personalization of t

6、he dwelling. In these planned housing schemes, residential and commercial activity is usually separated. In Southeast Asia where mixed-use urban settlements have been the tradition for generations, the separation of resi

7、dential and commercial activity usually does not work. Strict and constant supervision is required or else open space around housing areas is soon occupied by unauthorized commercial activity. In the older and more tradi

8、tional sectors of urban settlements in Southeast Asia, commercial and residential activities coexist together usually in the same building–the shophouse. In older sections of Southeast Asian cities, shophouse neighbourho

9、ods, although seemingly crowded, are lively environments that give cities in the region their distinctive character. An analysis of the traditional shophouse of the Malay Peninsula is described here and is proposed as a

10、model for better urban housing environments, which can sustain traditional ways of urban life Southeast Asia and elsewhere.Keywords: Housing, shophouse, southeast Asia, sustaining tradition, urban design.1. INTRODUCTIONT

11、he Chinese shophouse of the Malay Peninsula (Fig. 1) is the basic unit of the urban fabric in cities and towns in Malaysia (Fig. 2), Singapore [1], and other countries in the region (Fig. 3). While there are several vari

12、ations and versions of this typology, the typical Chinese shophouse is basically a long structure two to three stories high with a narrow street frontage. The ground floor is used for commercial purposes such as shops, l

13、ight industry or service businesses such as laundries, repair shops, etc. Sometimes more than one business may share the ground floor space in a single shophouse. In some variations of shophouses, the residential part is

14、 behind the shop. The upper floors are for residential use and may contain living units for several families or individuals who may sometimes share facilities such as kitchens and bathrooms. The ground floor shop front i

15、s separated from the street by a covered space known as a verandah. Shophouses are built in rows and share party walls between them. Through this configuration, the covered verandahs become continuous covered walk- ways

16、along the street. The continuous covered walkway is referred to locally as the verandah way. Rows of shophouses line the streets of oldersections of towns and clearly define the street and the urban block. The uniform ro

17、ws of shophouses are broken periodically by cross streets or by alleys.pace of change, buildings are built before safety regulations can be put in place. The rear of the building traditionally faces a service alley that

18、is clearly the back of the shophouse. The alley is used for service to the commercial as well as the residential parts of the building.Figure 3: Single-storey shophouses with shop at the front and dwelling in the rear in