英语翻译On another level,the individual is as much desirous of c

英语翻译
On another level,the individual is as much desirous of controlling the urban environment as city planners had once been,and has found means of controlling it with internet technologies.The individual is engaging in what Christine Boyer,in her remarkable book “Dreaming the Rational City” (about the rise of the urban planning mentality in the U.S.),called simply “improvement,” a desire to “amend the damaged harmony of the American city” (p.8).One outcome of the desire to improve city life in this sense was the development of the concept of “zoning,”:the division of the American city into a structure of cells,hierarchically controlled and rearranged…a technical solution meant to secure an orderly and stable development of the urban land market….Never meant to tamper with the ethic of private property,American zoning was intended instead to secure the interest of property owners by enhancing the economic stability of home ownership and
promoting the speculative development of real estate.(p.153)