We always knew it: there’s some kind of weird chemistry between (world) leaders and city models.

This time not just kim jong-il looking at things, Atlantic Cities staff writer Nate Berg gathered the evidence: 25 world leaders and heads of state showing how looking at small-scale models of big city projects can create the impression that they have some kind of control. Quite funny, but -as most lack any kind of  human activity in them- it makes you think if they actually see the difference between these utopian models and reality