AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Close
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
<a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-167264459/beijing-reborn-olympics-approaching.html" title="Facts and information about Beijing Reborn; With the Olympics approaching, China is re-creating its once grim capital on an awesome scale.(Cover story)">Beijing Reborn; With the Olympics approaching, China is re-creating its once grim capital on an awesome scale.(Cover story)</a>
Close
Set up an RSS feed that alerts you when new articles from Newsweek International are available.
Frequently asked questions about RSS feeds
Beijing Reborn; With the Olympics approaching, China is re-creating its once grim capital on an awesome scale.(Cover story)
Byline: Melinda Liu (With Jonathan Ansfield in Beijing and Duncan Hewitt in Shaoxing)
The transformation of Beijing for the 2008 Olympics is emerging as perhaps the most ambitious remake of any major world capital in history, short of the postwar reconstructions. The silhouettes of the spectacular new stadium and swimming center are already familiar worldwide, but they are set in a rebuilt urban core that startles return visitors. Lush new green spaces, swirling expressways, shopping arcades roofed with giant LED screens, a new downtown financial center plus a vastly expanded public trans-port system have all rapidly appeared. To some, the Olympic-driven ...
Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
For more facts and information, see all results
- Albert Speer top theatre nominee.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire November 16, 2004 700+ words
...From The Dominion Post) BRITISH play Albert Speer, about Hitler's architect, heads...Lisa Maule Cloud 9, Martyn Roberts Albert Speer. ArcHaus Architects Award for set designer...KC Kelly Macbeth, William Walker Albert Speer. Gibson Group Accolade for outstanding...
- Albert Speer: Giving up humanity in the face of evil.
- Magazine article from: Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri June 20, 2002 700+ words
...and heartless. This is the subject of Albert Speer, the latest production of The Mingei...up involved in a crime. The man is Albert Speer, one of Adolf Hitler's close aides...Sereny wrote a book on the subject. Albert Speer is a sincere, painstaking adaptation...
- Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth.
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Gates, David October 30, 1995 700+ words
...Nuremberg, a British officer handed Albert Speer a copy of his indictment for crimes...Speer knew about the Holocaust. In Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth (757 pages...Sereny admits upfront, she grew to like Albert Speer. Before he died in 1981, it wasn...
- The Good Nazi: The Life and Lies of Albert Speer.
- Magazine article from: National Review O'Brien, Conor Cruise November 10, 1997 700+ words
...Good Nazi: The Life & Lies of Albert Speer, by Dan van der Vat (Houghton Mifflin...THIS is a good account, both of Albert Speer's life and work with Hitler, and...in somewhat different forms) later. Albert Speer was accepted as a member of the Nazi...
- Albert Speer: His Battle with the Truth.
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Vish, Donald H. February 23, 1996 700+ words
...Sereny, in the first line of this impressive book, says of Albert Speer: he was a man "I knew well and grew to like." That...like Dorian Gray's portrait, reveal its grotesqueness. Albert Speer was Hitler's architect. Later he served as minister of...
- The Good Nazi: The Life and Lies of Albert Speer.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Library Journal Schroeder, Randall L. November 1, 1997 700+ words
...LJ 4/1/95) claims that this is the first biography of Albert Speer written without the subject's influence. The author...II collections. [For another view see Gitta Sereny's Albert Speer, LJ 10/15/95.--Ed.]
- Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Public Administration Review Stillman, Richard J. II March 1, 2001 700+ words
Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth (New York: Vintage, 1995). 757 pp., $24.50 hard. In 1978, historian Barbara Tuchman wrote a...
- Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly July 17, 1995 700+ words
...Sereny. Knopf, $35 ISBN 0-394-52915-4 Sereny, a London journalist, "found a great deal to like" in former Nazi Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and minister of armaments and war production, whom she interviewed extensively between 1978 and his...
- Albert Speer: the good Nazi?
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Pryce-Jones, David October 1, 2002 700+ words
Albert Speer was Adolf Hitler's intimate and trusted friend. Throughout the Thirties, the two met on an almost daily basis in Berlin or...
- Anti-Semitic policy in Albert Speer's plans for the rebuilding of Berlin.
- Magazine article from: The Art Bulletin Jaskot, Paul B. December 1, 1996 700+ words
...achieved both through Hitler's direct interest in the redesign of the capital and through the centralization and extension of Albert Speer's control over architectural policy as Inspector General of Building for the Reich Capital Berlin (Generalbauinspektor...
