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At MIT, I  had occasion to see Stadtluft macht frei takeamong a group of young architects from Shanghai. Their home citvepitomizes the urban explosion occurring throughout the develeping world today, a place expanding economically at a headlong rat, drawing young people from all over China into its orbit. Although my band of Shanghainese went home to their vilages or small townseach New Year, in the city they lett their local outlooks and habitsbehind. Some of the young male architects came out as gay; youngfemale architects delayed or refused to have a child-both sexes causing grief to those at home. When I introduced my charges to Stadtitmacht frei, they translated the phrase into Mandarin as ' wearing deferent hats. 
The superficial words convey a deep truth, that when life is open, it becomes  multi-layered. As it became for Benvenuto Cellini(an Italian goldsmith).