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“According to one of the architectural brains behind the plan, the goal of the effort is audaciously straightforward: We have to invent our own model [of urban development], says Yu Kongjian, who heads the Beijing-based urban-design firm Turenscape, given that no other nation faces these problems on the same scale.”