Practical Utopias In Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo

Forbes ^ | 10/15/2013 | Karl Schmavonian

[TexGrill]

Over the past 20 years the pace and scale of urbanization in Asia has been unprecedented,” says Jonathan D. Solomon, the curator of Practical Utopias: Global Urbanism in Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo, an exhibition at AIA New York’s Center for Architecture. “Asia today is a vast experiment in what makes a city,” says Solomon, associate dean at the Syracuse University School of Architecture, who lived in Hong Kong for six years before recently returning to the U.S.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: asiaeconomy

[TexGrill]

Global business tip

[Cronos]

Asia today is a vast experiment --> "Asia" is a horribly blanket term that combines groups that are racially, ethnically, culturally and socio-economically utterly different.

hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore are Chinese authoritarian cities (well, less hong kong).

[Utilizer]

Looks like someone forgot to mention Dear Leader's glorious cities in the NK Utopia! Not to mention those in the PRK crafted to look like places such as Paris, but where there seems to be an unexplained lack of foot traffic.

Or "traffic" of any sort, for that matter...

[TexGrill]

Hong Kong is an authoritarian city too. I was stuck in Hong Kong for two weeks. When you watch TV they play numerous TV ads talking about getting sent to prison for littering or riding a bike without a helmet. Some commercials give you a hotline phone number to call the police if you see somebody ride a bike without a helmet.