每一个城市规划人都对雅各布斯的《美国大城市的死与生》不会陌生,而《环球邮报》的记者道格桑德斯的这本著作在北美被誉为能够比肩这一名著的著作。有趣的是,作者撰写此书的缘由,也恰恰源自于他对雅各布斯的一次采访。此后他便萌生了撰写一部记录农村人口到城市迁徙的著作。从2007年开始,作者用3年的时间探访了10余个国家和地区,深入考察了城市化过程中的人口迁徙,图景式地描述了这一人类大迁徙的过程。和雅各布斯一样,道格桑德斯从一个专业新闻从业者的角度观察着城市,敏锐地发现到:“人类的大迁徙正体现于一种新兴的都会区域里,这些过渡性的空 Every urban planner is no stranger to Jacobs’s ”The Death and Life of a Metropolitan in the United States,“ and Doug Sanders, the Globe and Mail journalist, is acclaimed in North America as a shoulder to shoulder An author’s book. Interestingly, the reason why the author wrote this book also comes from his interview with Jacobs. Since then he has sprung up writing a book that records the migration of rural people to cities. Starting from 2007, the author visited more than 10 countries and regions in three years and conducted an in-depth study of the population migration in the process of urbanization. It vividly described the process of this great human migration. Like Jacobs, Doug Saunders observes the city from the perspective of a professional news practitioner and acutely discovers: ”The great human migration is taking place in a newly emerging metropolitan area. These transitional air