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Rebuilding Sichuan

From the Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium, to the massive Beijing Airport, and the impressive Shanghai World Expo, over the last decade nowhere on earth has attempted complex engineering on the scale that China has. Chinese engineers have overcome seemingly impossible challenges. They've bent the laws of physics and transformed the face of modern China virtually overnight. But even the most modern of cities is not safe from the hand of Mother Nature, and soon after the devastating events of May 2008 in Sichuan, China was faced with a different kind of construction challenge: to rebuild entire cities from scratch. It would be as much a challenge in design, in engineering as in sheer implementation; and its success could mean the difference between life & death for generations to come. Can Sichuan rebuild itself and become a city of the future?