The first opportunity I had to fight for a great public open space was in the early 1980s, when I was leading a team of planners at a gigantic landfill called Battery Park City And this sandy wasteland had lain barren for 10 years, and we were told, unless we found a developer in six months, it would go bankrupt.
我为公共空间做斗争的第一个机会 发生在 20 世纪 80 年代早期， 那时我领导着一队的规划师们， 在一个曼哈顿下城哈德逊河的 一个巨大的、叫做巴特里公园城的垃圾填埋场。 这块荒地已经在那里闲置 有十年了， 并且我们被告知， 如果我们不能在六个月内找到开发者， 这里就要破产了。