Today, I want to do the impossible

今天我想挑战一下
and talk about urbanization and urban growth in fifty minutes.

在五十分钟内讲一下城市化以及城市的发展
It builds on what you're reading

这些都以你们所读过的资料为基础
and I'll give the classic example,

我也会给你们举个经典例子
which is the greatest project of human intervention or rebuilding,

那是人类历史上最伟大的一项重建工程
that is the rebuilding of Paris

也就是巴黎的重建
by that man that my late friend, richard Cobb,

曾经被我的故友理查德·科布
once dissed as the "Alsacian Attila."

鄙视为"阿尔萨斯的阿提拉"