如果只看纸上,以城市公共空间为题的著作、论文和讨论已是连篇累牍、罗列堆砌,令人目不暇接。但若关注事实,也能即刻知道我国很多城市中的公共空间正在遭受着非常态的改造和扩建,其中固然有改良更新之善举,也不乏摧毁蹂躏之恶行。举一个小例子,我去年曾去东北某边境临江小城开会,看到宽阔江中有绿岛属我方界内,有步行桥和公路桥可直抵岛上。岛上自由通行,绿树成荫,游人不绝。今年我又去此地,发现当地正在小岛 If you look at the paper only, the works on the urban public space, the papers and discussions are endless, listed piling up, dizzying. However, if we pay attention to the facts, we can immediately know that the public spaces in many cities in our country are undergoing abnormal transformation and expansion. Although there are good things for improvement and updating, there are also many ways to destroy devastation. To give a small example, last year I went to a meeting in a small town of Linjiang in the northeast of China. I saw that there is a Green Island in the wide river and there are pedestrian bridges and road bridges going straight to the island. Free access to the island, tree-lined, tourists never go. This year I went again and found that the island was on the island