Can we create softer urban systems?

我们可以创建更柔软的城市系统吗？

We really are trying to understand the entirety of this urban wildlife system.

我们确实在努力了解整个城市野生动物系统。

The nearly 13 billion dollar project has been compared to the kind of urban flood control systems found in Dutch cities.

这一近130亿美元的项目已经被用来和荷兰城市不同防洪系统相比较。

The urban system is a grid and every street on this city goes across the river on a pontoon bridge.

城市系统是一个网格，这个城市的每条街道都在一座浮桥上过河。

Our fourth graders were third in reading gains of urban systems. There were three school districts in the United States whose fourth and eighth grader's reading went up.

我们的四年级学生在阅读城市系统方面获得了第三名。美国有三个学区的四年级和八年级学生的阅读量有所上升。

Incredibly resilient, because if there's an unseasonal downpour or if the river changes course, the urban system stays intact, the city adjusts itself to this terrain which can be volatile.

令人难以置信的弹性， 因为如果出现反常的倾盆大雨或河流改道，城市系统保持完好， 城市会自行调整以适应这种多变的地形。