I prefer city to countryside because the life in city attracts me more.I was born in city,so I'm used to the style of city.City life is not only busy ,but also interesting.First,shopping is quite convenient in the city.We are able to buy all we want.We can even buy things by phone and Internet.On the other hand,the traffic in the city is more comfortable than that in the countryside.We can go to everywhere by bus,taxi,underground and so on.And the night view of city is pretty nice.These are the reasons why I enjoy the city.我喜歡住在城市因?yàn)槌鞘猩罡?我出生在城市,所以我習(xí)慣了城市風(fēng)格.城市生活不僅繁忙,而且有趣.首先,在城市購物非常便捷.我們可以買到所有我們想買的.我們甚至可以通過電話和網(wǎng)絡(luò)購物.另一方面,城市交通比郊區(qū)的更舒適.我們可以乘坐公交車、出租車、地鐵等等到任何地方.而且城市夜晚的景色也相當(dāng)迷人.這些就是為什么我喜歡城市的原因.
郊區(qū)化亦稱郊區(qū)城市化.指當(dāng)代特大城市因人口和各種職能迅速向郊區(qū)擴(kuò)散轉(zhuǎn)移,從而使郊區(qū)變?yōu)榫哂惺袇^(qū)多種職能的城市化地域的過程.其根本原因是急速膨脹的城市人口超過市區(qū)地域的負(fù)荷容量,致使城市內(nèi)部土地利用緊張,交通擁擠,居住和環(huán)境條件惡化；而郊區(qū)空間開闊,高速公路、地下鐵道等現(xiàn)代化交通工具和設(shè)施,為移居提供了方便.
If by "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior,the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.Before that period the city was a small highly compact cluster in which people moved about on foot and goods were conveyed by horse and cart.But the early factories built in the 1840’s were located along waterways and near railheads at the edges of cities,and housing was needed for the thousands of people drawn by the prospect of employment.In time,the factories were surrounded by proliferating mill towns of apartments and row houses that abutted the older,main cities.As a defense against this encroachment and to enlarge their tax bases,the cities appropriated their industrial neighbors.In 1854,for example,the city of Philadelphia annexed most of Philadelphia County.Similar municipal maneuvers took place in Chicago and in New York.Indeed,most great cities of the United States achieved such status only by incorporating the communities along their borders.
With the acceleration of industrial growth came acute urban crowding and accompanying social stress-conditions that began to approach disastrous proportions when,in 1888,the first commercially successful electric traction line was developed.Within a few years the horse-drawn trolleys were retired and electric streetcar networks crisscrossed and connected every major urban area,fostering a wave of suburbanization that transformed the compact industrial city into a dispersed metropolis.This first phase of mass-scale suburbanization was reinforced by the simultaneous emergence of the urban Middle Class,whose desires for homeownership in neighborhoods far from the aging inner city were satisfied by the developers of single-family housing tracts.