Daniel Brook

In China, local and regional governments are spending lavishly to establish a new kind of public space, marked by a fusion of Communist, nationalist, and capitalist symbols.

An unpopular president, a myth-making architect, and a multibillionaire tycoon build a giant airport in a nature preserve.

Emerging from a half century of dictatorship, can Myanmar’s principal city be a model of sustainable, democratic development?

The fast-forward reinvention of Shanghai, a dynamic and contradictory city that has yet to live up to its historic promise — to sort out what it means to be Chinese and modern.