A world gallery of contemporary cities and their trajectories.
The Eight-City Ribbon
One continuous skyline band: Dubai, Tokyo, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur - the modern world city at dusk, forty feet long.
Tokyo: The Station City
A cutaway of Shinjuku - three million passengers a day stacked over shops, offices, and platforms; the city as a machine that runs on rail.
Shenzhen: The Speed
Fishing village to fifteen million in one lifetime; the diorama shows the same square mile in 1980, 2000, and now.
Dubai: The Vertical Oasis
Sand to supertall in fifty years - the world set's greatest vertical push, cut open from metro to spire.
The Reading Wall
The hall's informational panels in sequence - the argument of the gallery told in maps, figures, and captions. Read it like a chapter.
Viewpoints
The world set and the top 10 hang here - current views, always on.
Panorama of Damascus - among the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth. Estate modern-cities collection (Wikimedia Commons).