Once considered great tapestries of human experience, those cities are either riven by internal conflict or, like their Western counterparts, risk being transformed into sanitized theme parks.

• 这些城市曾被视为人类历史的伟大织锦，现在不是被内部冲突撕裂，就是像西方的国际城市，变成所有异质都被净化殆尽的主题乐园。