Our cities are lacking areas like that. Cars and people don't mix — there's no way flesh and blood can match all that steel.

Cities are about juxtaposition.

Over 100 cities in China have more than 1 million people. If even a small percentage of these people are able to purchase home furnishings, it would be really promising.

Our own people are going to other cities because we can't provide our own fields.

[It] consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Seattle is really on the national and international map in terms of green building. People in other cities call to ask what's happening here.