Exhibit Opening: Practical Utopias: Global Urbanism in HongKong, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo

• Design & Architecture

Attend the opening of Practical Utopias: Global Urbanism in Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo, an exhibition presenting a body of recent work by American and other international firms in five cities across East Asia. Though occurring in culturally, economically, politically and geographically diverse environments, these projects exhibit similar characteristics that while not unique in themselves, combine in ways that distinguish this work from that being done anywhere else in the world.

Practical utopias are focal points for utopian ambition: expanding central business districts, improving tourism economies or increasing transportation connectivity. They are also solutions to practical challenges: accommodating increasing density, creating spaces for public leisure or crafting cultural identities in rapidly changing societies.