第一篇：波特兰
项目名称：波特兰购物中心复兴计划
项目地址：俄勒冈州，波特兰市
项目委托：俄勒冈三县大都会交通运输区及波特兰交通运输局
项目评语：
“他们（设计方）提出了一个好点子，并且将它完成得更好。项目使这一公共开支物尽其用，将其它设计方法远远甩在了后面，它再次彰显了波特兰市的领先地位。他们敢为人先，克服困难，完成了在城市里几乎不可能完成的任务。”
——2011专业奖评委会
项目内容：
波特兰购物中心是一项城市改造工程，项目始于20世纪70年代，大大地改善了波特兰市中心的基础设施，使市区恢复了活力。然而，随着时间的推移，情况又逐渐恶化，维护费用缩减，商业也因此受损。为了扭转这一颓势，并且考虑到2030年将有一百万的新增市民，当地的交通运输服务商TriMet和波特兰市、当地政府、波特兰企业联盟和城市设计师合作，共同为波特兰购物中心恢复活力出谋划策。这一“大型街道”规划再次强调了购物中心在市中心城市形态中作为市民空间的重要地位。由此，购物中心成为了新开发计划的关键以及多种交通运输方式的枢纽，包括人行道、自行车道、机动车道、新型轻轨和大容量公共汽车系统。
项目场地长达1.7英里，涵盖了116个街区立面，穿越了波特兰市中心6个截然不同的地区。重振项目包括58个市中心街区及十字路口的修缮和重建、修缮并新增人行道设施，包括45个新的交通运输站台、新的和现有的公共艺术、机动车和自行车行驶专道、商用限定泊车区和卸载区等。项目约合2亿2000万美元，是波特兰市最大的公共项目。
邻近商户早先确立了目标，要在视野开阔处设置街景元素，将交通运输功能和街道的日常生活融合起来，使人们可以在这里行走、闲坐、停留、观摩、谈话、用餐、购物。大家达成共识，认为走廊应该在整体上保持统一（通过地面铺装、灯光照明、遮蔽设施、引导标识和基础街道装置）的同时也应具有多样性（通过公共艺术、辅助街道装置以及引入雨水景观特征）。
这一项目在各个尺度上都体现了可持续性：它在城市的核心进行了再度投资，强化了波特兰的城市结构，为一个不断城市化的社会提供了更多清洁的交通选择，并形成了公私合作的关系使投资在未来得以持续。这一项目使高质量原材料得以保存和更新，同时路灯、指示灯和交通运输站点均引入了新的节能技术。该项目的一大重要目标在于赋予整个街区更多的活力，因此，TriMet及其合作方开启了一项针对市区企业的拓展计划，包括提供设计/许可援助和低息贷款。这种来自公共和私人双方的支持，与公共部门、产权人和工商界的合作关系是对这个项目进行长期管理的关键。作为一个体现了21世纪的设计、场所营造和基础设施建设新基准的作品，波特兰购物中心代表了该地区对于市民空间、重要的城市中心区和可持续交通运输的重视。
第二篇：11-波特兰大学 2009 毕业典礼
The unforgettable Commencement Address 2009.By Paul Hawken
When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short talk that was “direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful.” No pressure there.Let’s begin with the startling part.Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating.Kind of a mind-boggling situation...but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement.Basically, civilization needs a new operating system, you are the programmers, and we need it within a few decades.This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them.Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken.Buckminster Fuller said that spaceship earth was so ingeniously designed that no one has a clue that we are on one, flying through the universe at a million miles per hour, with no need for seatbelts, lots of room in coach, and really good food—but all that is changing.There is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and in case you didn’t bring lemon juice to decode it, I can tell you what it says: You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring.The earth couldn’t afford to send recruiters or limos to your school.It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating.Take the hint.And here’s the deal: Forget that this task of planet-saving is not possible in the time required.Don’t be put off by people who know what is not possible.Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand the data.But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse.What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.The poet Adrienne Rich wrote, “So much has been destroyed I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.” There could be no better description.Humanity is coalescing.It is reconstituting the world, and the action is taking place in schoolrooms, farms, jungles, villages, campuses, companies, refuge camps, deserts, fisheries, and slums.You join a multitude of caring people.No one knows how many groups and organizations are working on the most salient issues of our day: climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights, and more.This is the largest movement the world has ever seen.Rather than control, it seeks connection.Rather than dominance, it strives to disperse concentrations of power.Like Mercy Corps, it works behind the scenes and gets the job done.Large as it is, no one knows the true size of this movement.It provides hope, support, and meaning to billions of people in the world.Its clout resides in idea, not in force.It is made up of teachers, children, peasants, businesspeople, rappers, organic farmers, nuns, artists, government workers, fisherfolk, engineers, students, incorrigible writers, weeping Muslims, concerned mothers, poets, doctors without borders, grieving Christians, street musicians, the President of the United States of America, and as the writer David James Duncan would say, the Creator, the One who loves us all in such a huge way.There is a rabbinical teaching that says if the world is ending and the Messiah arrives, first plant a tree, and then see if the story is true.Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us;it resides in humanity’s willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider.“One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice,” is Mary Oliver’s description of moving away from the profane toward a deep sense of connectedness to the living world.Millions of people are working on behalf of strangers, even if the evening news is usually about the death of strangers.This kindness of strangers has religious, even mythic origins, and very specific eighteenth-century roots.Abolitionists were the first people to create a national and global movement to defend the rights of those they did not know.Until that time, no group had filed a grievance except on behalf of itself.The founders of this movement were largely unknown — Granville Clark, Thomas Clarkson, Josiah Wedgwood — and their goal was ridiculous on the face of it: at that time three out of four people in the world were enslaved.Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages.And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity.Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists.They were told they would ruin the economy and drive England into poverty.But for the first time in history a group of people organized themselves to help people they would never know, from whom they would never receive direct or indirect benefit.And today tens of millions of people do this every day.It is called the world of non-profits, civil society, schools, social entrepreneurship, non-governmental organizations, and companies who place social and environmental justice at the top of their strategic goals.The scope and scale of this effort is unparalleled in history.The living world is not “out there” somewhere, but in your heart.What do we know about life? In the words of biologist Janine Benyus, life creates the conditions that are conducive to life.I can think of no better motto for a future economy.We have tens of thousands of abandoned homes without people and tens of thousands of abandoned people without homes.We have failed bankers advising failed regulators on how to save failed assets.We are the only species on the planet without full employment.Brilliant.We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it.You can print money to bail out a bank but you can’t print life to bail out a planet.At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it.We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future.One is called restoration and the other exploitation.And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering.Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.The first living cell came into being nearly 40 million centuries ago, and its direct descendants are in all of our bloodstreams.Literally you are breathing molecules this very second that were inhaled by Moses, Mother Teresa, and Bono.We are vastly interconnected.Our fates are inseparable.We are here because the dream of every cell is to become two cells.And dreams come true.In each of you are one quadrillion cells, 90 percent of which are not human cells.Your body is a community, and without those other microorganisms you would perish in hours.Each human cell has 400 billion molecules conducting millions of processes between trillions of atoms.The total cellular activity in one human body is staggering: one septillion actions at any one moment, a one with twenty-four zeros after it.In a millisecond, our body has undergone ten times more processes than there are stars in the universe, which is exactly what Charles Darwin foretold when he said science would discover that each living creature was a “little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars of heaven.”
So I have two questions for you all: First, can you feel your body? Stop for a moment.Feel your body.One septillion activities going on simultaneously, and your body does this so well you are free to ignore it, and wonder instead when this speech will end.You can feel it.It is called life.This is who you are.Second question: who is in charge of your body? Who is managing those molecules? Hopefully not a political party.Life is creating the conditions that are conducive to life inside you, just as in all of nature.Our innate nature is to create the conditions that are conducive to life.What I want you to imagine is that collectively humanity is evincing a deep innate wisdom in coming together to heal the wounds and insults of the past.Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years.No one would sleep that night, of course.The world would create new religions overnight.We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God.Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television.This extraordinary time when we are globally aware of each other and the multiple dangers that threaten civilization has never happened, not in a thousand years, not in ten thousand years.Each of us is as complex and beautiful as all the stars in the universe.We have done great things and we have gone way off course in terms of honoring creation.You are graduating to the most amazing, stupefying challenge ever bequested to any generation.The generations before you failed.They didn’t stay up all night.They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle every moment of your existence.Nature beckons you to be on her side.You couldn’t ask for a better boss.The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful.This is your century.Take it and run as if your life depends on it.
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