每一个时代都伴随着一种城市类型的出现。雅典、罗马、纽约和上海皆是如此。追溯它们建造的过程,城市成为了复杂现实的反光镜。但是,准确地说,正因为城市同时成为新理念的生产者和消费者,它们在自身的演进过程中打破了曾经的传统和连续性。此时,城市似乎既具有历史的秩序井然,又同时成为无法预知的未来混乱的受害者。传说中的建筑师代达罗斯因两件卓越的功绩而闻名于世:他是迷宫的发明者以及翅膀的设计师,而后者也悲惨地导致他的儿子伊卡洛斯在过于接近太阳时殒命。城市似乎也在这两种双生的建筑形式之间摇摆。它们或者成为中心难以抵达的迷宫,又或催生着众多 Every era is accompanied by the emergence of a type of city. This is true of Athens, Rome, New York and Shanghai. Tracing back to the process of their construction, the city becomes a mirror of complex reality. But, to be exact, precisely because cities are both producers and consumers of new ideas, they have broken the once tradition and continuity of their own evolution. At this point, the city seems to be both historically orderly and simultaneously a victim of unpredictable future chaos. The legendary architect Daedalus is famous for two remarkable achievements: he was the inventor of the maze and the designer of the wings, and the latter tragically led his son Icarus to die when he was too close to the sun. The city also seems to swing between these two twin forms of architecture. They have either become mazes that are hard to reach in the center, or have many births