英语翻译The American geographer Ratcliff,coming from a diffient

英语翻译
The American geographer Ratcliff,coming from a diffient point of view from ours,has also disputed and rejectd the popular thesis that metropolitan problems of scale.To reduce metropolition problems to problems of scale means to ignore the actual structure of the city and its conditions of evolution.The reading of city I have proposed here with reference to primary elements,historically constituted urban artifacts,and areas of influence permits a study of the growth of the city in which such changes of scale do not affect the laws of development.
It seems to me that the inappropriate interpretation of the "new scale" by architects can also be explained through certain sugesstions of a more figurative nature.It is worth recallng how at the outest of the debate Giuseppe Samona cautioned architects againsts aganst the error of too easily being led by a perception of increased urban scale to gigantism in their projects."It is absolutely out of the question in my opinion ,"he declared,"to nature any idea of gigantic spatial parmeters.In truth we find ourselves,as at all times,in a situation that,from a general point of view ,parents man and his space in well-balanced proportion,and in a relationship all the spcial measures are gretar than were the more fixed onces of fifty years ago"