DONALD TRUMP’S popularity may be plummeting(急剧下降) in America and around the world, yet India’s appetite for buildings bearing his name(以他的名字命名) remains undiminished(未减弱的). This month a local developer licensing the Trump name announced the details of the latest such project. Promising “every comfort, convenience and indulgence(纵情享受)” and spread across two towers of 65 storeys each, it will be the country’s largest Trump-branded property. But those who are expecting to find this monument to the tastes of India’s new rich in high-rise Mumbai, brand-obsessed Delhi or tech-fuelled Bangalore will be disappointed.(但那些期待在孟买、德里或班加罗尔找到这座印度新贵品味纪念碑的人将会失望。) The home of the newest Trump towers is, surprisingly, Hyderabad.
唐纳德·特朗普在美国乃至全球的声望或许正在暴跌，但印度对以他名字命名的大楼的热情却丝毫未减。本月，一家获得特朗普品牌授权的当地开发商公布了最新此类项目的细节。该项目承诺提供“一切舒适、便利与纵情享受”，横跨两座各65层的高塔，将成为该国最大的特朗普品牌地产。但那些期待在摩天大楼林立的孟买、痴迷品牌的德里或科技驱动的班加罗尔找到这座印度新贵品味纪念碑的人将会失望。最新特朗普大楼的所在地，出人意料，竟是海得拉巴。
The capital of the wealthy southern state of Telangana, Hyderabad is little known outside India. Domestically its reputation rests on(依赖于，基于) its distinct culture (it serves as a meeting point for north and south India), wonderful cuisine (it produces the best biryani(印度香饭) known to humanity, no matter what(无论什么) those misguided(误入歧途的) souls in Lucknow tell you) and thriving tech industry (Google, Microsoft and Amazon all have huge offices there). It is not famous for skyscrapers. Yet it has more of them than any Indian city bar Mumbai, which was forced into vertical growth by its island geography.(然而，它的摩天大楼数量超过除孟买以外的任何印度城市，而孟买是因岛屿地理被迫垂直发展的。)
作为富裕的南部特伦甘纳邦的首府，海得拉巴在印度以外鲜为人知。在国内，它的声誉建立在其独特的文化（它是印度南北方的交汇点）、美味佳肴（它出产人类已知的最好的印度香饭，无论勒克瑙那些误入歧途的人怎么告诉你）和蓬勃发展的科技产业（谷歌、微软和亚马逊都在那里设有大型办公室）之上。它并不以摩天大楼闻名。然而，它的摩天大楼数量超过除孟买以外的任何印度城市，而孟买是因岛屿地理被迫垂直发展的。
How did the country’s sixth-most populous city build its second-largest concentration(集中，聚集) of tall buildings? It got out of the way(让路，不阻碍). Near the top of the long list of things holding India’s cities back is something called “floor space index(楼面面积指数)” (FSI), or the ratio of permissible built-up area to land area. In successful Asian cities like Singapore, FSI is set as high as 25, meaning that for every square foot of land, a developer can build up to 25 square feet of tower. In India local authorities worried about meagre(贫乏的，不足的) civic infrastructure set the number somewhere around 2. It rarely exceeds 4. The central government’s latest economic survey describes restrictive FSI as a distortion responsible for(对……负责，是……的原因) urban low-rise sprawl(蔓延，无序扩张). Worse, the finance ministry’s economists write, it “raises land values and creates artificial scarcity(人为稀缺) in core urban areas”. Hyderabad, unique among India’s cities, abolished(废除，取消) FSI in 2006.
这个国家第六大人口城市是如何建成其第二大高楼集中区的？它让路了。在阻碍印度城市发展的长长清单上，接近顶端的是所谓的“楼面面积指数”（FSI），即可允许建筑面积与土地面积的比率。在像新加坡这样成功的亚洲城市，FSI 被设定为高达25，这意味着每平方英尺土地，开发商可以建造高达25平方英尺的塔楼。在印度，担心市政基础设施薄弱的地方当局将这个数字设定在2左右。它很少超过4。中央政府最新的经济调查将限制性 FSI 描述为导致城市低层蔓延的扭曲因素。更糟的是，财政部经济学家写道，它“抬高了土地价值，并在核心城区造成了人为稀缺”。海得拉巴在印度城市中独树一帜，于2006年废除了 FSI。