Andreas Rosenfelder talks to the city planner Albert Speer of AS&P who genuinely believes that modern architecture can bring democracy to China. He is deeply critical, however, of the cult of spectacular UFO buildings. “Take Zaha Hadid, who is also involved in urban planning in Istanbul and Singapore. Her buildings have nothing to do with their locations. They are just cloud ideas which can be deposited anywhere in the world like volcano ash, quite at random. And the terrible thing is that the people who make the decisions fall for all this. Only later do they realise that it can’t work and it doesn’t fit their city.