We see a different future…. It is projected that by the year 2050, about 9.7 billion people, roughly 66% of humans on our planet, will live in cities. As populations swell and our population urbanizes rapidly, design becomes ever important in providing quality places for people to live, while responsibly leveraging global resources to maintain the health of our people and planet. The resilient cities of the future must be born and supported from the strength of their environment, and in turn if we are to thrive as a species we must respect, enhance and protect the natural systems that support us all. Therefore, we must explore a new city design sensibility that once again subordinates mankind to the power of nature, and compels designers, policy makers and scientists to re-evaluate choices based more on input from the environments that surround us and systems-based thinking rather than our opinion of what is beautiful. The new way to approach city design allows science and ecology to shape its form, rather than allowing form to shape the ecology.%我们看到了一个不同的未来。。。。。。据预测，到2050年时，地球上将有约97亿人口—大致占全球人口的66％—居住在城市。随着人口爆炸和飞速的人口城市化，设计在为人类提供优质的生活空间这一方面变得日益重要；同时，设计还需谨慎负责地利用全球资源，以保持我们人类和地球家园的健康。未来的弹性城市一定是诞生于并从其环境中得到支持；反过来，如果我们人类想要以某一物种的身份在地球上蓬勃发展，那么我们便必须尊重、提升并保护供我们所有人类生存发展的自然生态系统。因此，我们必须探索一种新的城市设计感知力，这种感知力再度强调人类要服从于自然的力量，并迫使设计者、决策者和科学家对我们的选择进行重新评估—这些评估应更加基于需要消耗多少来自我们周遭环境的投入，并要求我们进行更为系统的思考，而非盲目追求好看。这种探索城市设计的新方式，使科学和生态得以决定城市形式，而非反过来由形式所决定。
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