Today during lunch we were talking about Shanghai's "One City, Nine Towns" initiative of the 2001--2005 5-year plan.
Each district would get a New Town with the distinctive feel of a certain foreign architecture, so they created a Little Sweden, a Little Germany, a Little Italy, etc.
They hired an architect from each target country to do their bit, so for example for the German town they hired, ehum, Albert Speer and Partners.