There is a sensible design code for each of the new neighbourhoods, covering general layouts, materials and street character: stone, bricks and things that last will be favoured over the recent vernacular of novelty shapes decorated with jazzy shades of plastic.
In the four years since Jobs' Second Coming a parade of new hits, from Handspring Visors to RIM BlackBerrys, has passed Apple by as the artist obsesses over shades of plastic pink.
"Oh, did you see that?" said Eric Hull, the leader of Wildseed's user interface team, who was watching the teenagers as they rated various shades of blue plastic.
Xiang Qing, a 22-year-old recruiter for the Funilai undergarment factory, was looking wilted and abject under the shade of a plastic canopy.
Underneath the shade of a plastic awning, the body was lowered into the ground, covered with emerald foliage, and filled with dirt.
Pausing to admire purslane, mint, chard, black cabbage, and a single flowering artichoke, we came to a makeshift shed where two women and a young girl were sorting grape leaves in the shade of a plastic tarp.
Speaking under the shade of a plastic tarpaulin outside her house, she said that she and her sister Sophal, 20, each earned $55 a month making clothes, helping to support their family of 12. Her father, she said, made only $10 to 20 a month as an electrician.
Cast in varying shades of translucent pink plastic, the figure sits on a white pedestal wearing a pink suit copied from one worn by Jacqueline Kennedy.
Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. Director of the Museum of Modem Art Good Design Showsshowedwed some plates of extraordinary lightness, made of plastic shades of red and gray.
The Cool-er has eight iPod-like metallic-paint shades, but it's made of plastic.
Fill in nail holes on light-toned areas of wood with a scoop of light putty and the mixed shades of putty using a plastic dish scraper.
