摘要
继纽约之后，上海是“都市时代”城市调查的第二个城市。它提供了一个机会，让人们从一个处于“发作性”变动的城市中学习；这些变动之剧烈，令人担心人类耐受力的底线。我们还能探索速度与摩擦的涵义。上海的变化之快，令我们有可能看到理论对实践的影响，这在当今世界也许是独一无二的。
After New York, Shanghai was the second in the Urban Age investigations of cities. It provided a chance to learn from a city in the midst of a spasm of change so violent that it questions the extent of human resilience to explore the meaning of speed and friction. It is a city moving so fast that it is possible to see the impact of theory on practice like nowhere else in the world. ---Director of London Design Museum, Chief editor of 《The Endless City》： Deyan Sudjic
