Global Polis: Interactive Infrastructures August 27, 2009

'Global Polis: Interactive Infrastructures' documents a series of contemporary experiments in planning, architecture and design that treat cities and their environments in holistic terms, as a complex social, political and ecological matrix - not just as an assembly of buildings, roadways, bridges, pipes and tunnels (although each of these is important). Our capacity to balance urban development with the demands of ecological imperatives and social needs has only worsened in recent decades, and this exhibition asks whether the trend can be reversed.