What Urban Renewal and Redevelopment Do Wrong

An overly beautified urban renewal rendering. In the image, new high-rises rise from the ground, while all surrounding old houses are depicted as neat low-rise volumes or simply blurred into a gray mass; there are no power lines, no signboards, no motorcycles on the street; the sky is always dusk, the ground is always wet and reflective; all figures are young families strolling. This is a sales rendering, not a planning diagram. The correct approach is to include the real conditions of the surroundings. Avoid: blurring or beautifying the surrounding existing environment, removing power lines, signboards, and motorcycles, using a uniform dusk rendering, only placing idealized human activities.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一張過度美化的更新示意圖。畫面裡新大樓拔地而起,周邊的老屋全部被畫成整齊的低矮量體或乾脆虛化成一片灰;街上沒有電線、沒有招牌、沒有機車;天空是永遠的黃昏、地面是永遠的濕潤反光;人物全部是散步的年輕家庭。這是銷售圖不是規劃圖。正確的做法是把周邊的真實狀況一起畫進去。避免:虛化或美化周邊的既有環境、移除電線招牌與機車、使用一律的黃昏渲染、只放置理想化的人物活動。