London might once have been an industrial city but now it relies on natural resources. Mining, mostly. At least that’s the impression a visitor would get wandering the city’s most affluent streets. A common sight is the hoarding around a ground floor with a boxed-in conveyor belt sticking out at an awkward upward angle, spouting earth into a skip in the road. This is the sign of the space-mine, the conjuring of domestic square footage from underground as the capital’s prime natural resource.
伦敦可能曾经是一个工业城市，但现在它依赖自然资源。主要是挖掘。至少这是一个游客在这个城市最富裕的街道上闲逛会得到的印象。一个常见的景象是围绕底层的临时围栏，一个盒式传送带以一个笨拙的角度向上伸出，将泥土送到马路上的废料桶中。这是“空间采矿”的标志，即向地下要额外居住面积——这是英国首都的主要自然资源。
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