Glazer, Nathan. "Shanghai Surprise." The New Republic, January 30, 2008.

Excerpt: Shanghai, from which I have just returned after a first visit to China, has a specially built modern museum to house exhibits on the planning for the future Shanghai, and it includes an enormous model of Shanghai today. It is of a scale and detail that matches the huge model of New York City built for the 1964 World’s Fair and now housed in the Queens Museum—which is itself located in a fragment of the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City. But the contrasts are striking and reveal much that distinguishes China’s largest city from our own largest city.

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