Giant new cities offer promise and challenge - International Herald Tribune

Giant new cities offer promise and challenge - International Herald Tribune: "'In America, I could never do work like I do here,' Steven Holl, a New York architect with several large projects in China, recently told me, referring to his latest complex in Beijing. 'We've become too backward-looking. In China, they want to make everything look new. This is their moment in time. They want to make the 21st century their century.'"