Meet CityVille's Frank Gehry  February 28, 2011: 1:17 PM ET
Architect Yick Kai Chan once mapped out schools and banks. Now,
Chan uses his skills for Zynga, to build CityVille's virtual
communities one twee building at a time.  CityVille isn't just
another city simulation game. As its 95 million monthly active
users will attest, Zynga's latest ridiculously successful
product for Facebook isn't just a hodge-podge of caricatured
buildings or bobble-headed locals with emoticon bubbles -- it's
an incubator for a self-sustaining virtual community you can
(and must) share with Facebook friends. Its devious simplicity
quickly gives way to surprising levels of complexity: planting
and harvesting crops with different growth rates to supply local
food merchants, hiring Facebook friends to staff community
centers, and visiting neighboring cities to build your own
community's reputation. To that end, CityVille offers up
hundreds of items for gamers to build up their communities.
That's where Yick Kai Chan comes in. If y