0. Everyone knows what a "megacity"

0. Everyone knows what a "megacity" looks like. Row upon row of cardboard and corrugated metal shacks
in the shadow of gleaming skyscrapers. Bony children playing half-naked in the mud beneath a haze of smog. Laundry hanging overhead. In the city center, a quarter mile away, business people close deals over four-course lunches and make tennis dates on their cellular phones. Well-heeled shoppers browsing in pricey boutiques walk past beggars with outstretched hands. Limos with tinted windows compete with rickshaws for position on teeming streets.
This is the scene that urban planners and environmentalists, have warned for decades would overtake us all.
1. Well, that future has come. And it may not be so bad after all. So say urban experts and officials. By expert opinions, a majority oftheearth'sinhabitantslivesmurbanareas.Moreimportant,thequalityoflifc in such megalopolises is better than was predicted. Life expectancy is longer in the big cities than in smaller ones or in the countryside. Urban dwellers are more likely to have good sewage disposal and running water than are their rural compatriots. And cities tend to offer superior medical care, greater educalional opportunities and more jobs.
2. That has led to a reversal in the way policy planners are addressing rapid urbanization. They used to be trying
to limit mass migration by urging people to stay on the farm. (Cuba and China evicted million from the cities, Indonesia outlawed new arrives from the countryside.) But now experts have taken a new approach. Rather than focus on preventing the migration ofiural poor to the cities, they suggest concentrating on making those cities better places to live.
3. Still, the idea of big city bad, little village good dies hard because of a popular romantic attachment to the
idea of agrarian life. But it is also a practical matter. Traditionally, international aid money has gone largely to funding шгаі projects. Only recently have institutions like the World Bank begun to shift theur focus. Many cities have trade and foreign relations across national borders, as shown by the commercial independence of same large cities in authoritarian nations like China. They may have more in common with one another than with rural regions of their own country. Solutions to high crime rates and massive traffic jams won't be found in any country's hinterland, but in other cities having the same problems. New York, for instance, borrowed an air-pollution program from Sao Paulo.

4. For all that, there's little agreement on what needs to be done to improve urban life. Some officials want
to emphasize housing and rural issues. Others object to the new focus of improving city life and want to continue
discouraging rural out-migration. However the UN report came down clearly on the side of urbanization: "Cities may provide better services to people, reduce poverty, improve life expectancy and more wisely manage our planet's massive population growth."

5. Must people flee to the cities because life there is generally better than the rural one. Their new homes may be dirty shanties without plumbing or heat. A regional-planning professor spent three years living in the slums of Brazil's largest cities and studying their residents' lives. "I went back with many of them to their hometowns, and the conditions there were nearly always worse," she says. The people who migrated to the cities are there to
give their children a better life than they had.

Результаты (украинский) 1:

0. всі знають, як виглядає «Мегаполіс». Ряд за рядом картонно-гофрованого металу халупи у тіні блискучі хмарочосів. Кістляві дітей, що грають напівголі в багнюці під серпанок смогу. Накладні Висячі Пральня. У центрі міста, за чверть милі, ділових людей закриває угод чотири курси обіди і зробити теніс дат на свої стільникові телефони. Багатих покупців перегляду в дорогий бутіки пройти повз жебраків розпростертими руками. Лімузини з тонованими вікнами конкурувати з рикші за місце на вулиці кишать. Це сцена, яка містобудівників, екологів і попередили, бо десятиліть була обігнати всіх нас.1. добре, які вступають в майбутньому. І це може бути не так вже й погано врешті-решт. Так сказати, міських експертів і посадові особи. Оглянуто експертних висновків, більшість oftheearth'sinhabitantslivesmurbanareas.Moreimportant, thequalityoflifc в таких мегаполісами це краще, ніж було передбачене. Очікувана тривалість життя становить більше часу у великих містах, ніж дрібні або в сільській місцевості. Міські жителі, швидше за все, мають хороші стічних вод розпорядженні і проточної води, ніж їх сільських співвітчизників. І міст, як правило, пропонують вищої медичної допомоги, більш широких можливостей educalional і більше робочих місць.2. які привели до розвороту в тому, як політика планувальників вирішенні швидкого урбанізації. Вони використовували бути намагаючись to limit mass migration by urging people to stay on the farm. (Cuba and China evicted million from the cities, Indonesia outlawed new arrives from the countryside.) But now experts have taken a new approach. Rather than focus on preventing the migration ofiural poor to the cities, they suggest concentrating on making those cities better places to live.3. Still, the idea of big city bad, little village good dies hard because of a popular romantic attachment to the idea of agrarian life. But it is also a practical matter. Traditionally, international aid money has gone largely to funding шгаі projects. Only recently have institutions like the World Bank begun to shift theur focus. Many cities have trade and foreign relations across national borders, as shown by the commercial independence of same large cities in authoritarian nations like China. They may have more in common with one another than with rural regions of their own country. Solutions to high crime rates and massive traffic jams won't be found in any country's hinterland, but in other cities having the same problems. New York, for instance, borrowed an air-pollution program from Sao Paulo. 4. For all that, there's little agreement on what needs to be done to improve urban life. Some officials want to emphasize housing and rural issues. Others object to the new focus of improving city life and want to continue discouraging rural out-migration. However the UN report came down clearly on the side of urbanization: "Cities may provide better services to people, reduce poverty, improve life expectancy and more wisely manage our planet's massive population growth." 5. Must people flee to the cities because life there is generally better than the rural one. Their new homes may be dirty shanties without plumbing or heat. A regional-planning professor spent three years living in the slums of Brazil's largest cities and studying their residents' lives. "I went back with many of them to their hometowns, and the conditions there were nearly always worse," she says. The people who migrated to the cities are there to give their children a better life than they had.