Anywhere Town

by Gianluca Cecere

This is my personal vision about the globalization. I travelled around Europe in many cities with the goal that all of them look like the same city. Barcelona, Naples, Frankfurt, Rotterdam, Paris… you cannot find some differences between each from other: the subject are the citizens of the world. The cultural homologation, meant as uniformity of the behaviors, of the models of life, of the consumptions, inevitably influences the landscape, simplifying and modifying irreversibly the legibility of the past signs. The urban contexts lose their peculiarities and they wherever assume the repetitive characteristics of the residences of outskirts.The "city of the future" becomes a place deprived of importance and references, foreign to its inhabitants. In some zones of the big urban realities you can speak of "individuals without place", that means without any link with their own territory.The cities assume the aspect of the plastic models planned by their architects; and this happens anywhere: in Naples as in Berlin, in Paris as in Oslo.The following photos were taken in Rotterdam, Paris, Naples, Luxembourg, Frankfurt, San Marino, Bruxelles, Barcelona, London.

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5 Responses to “Anywhere Town”

 

  1. meesemees says:

    I like the idea, but the first photo speaked to me the most.

  2. Heward Jue says:

    Every city in the world is starting to look the same because multinational corporations have taken over the world. Beautiful photos of a not-so-beautiful world trend.

  3. nosa says:

    true the business district look all the same but that’s the same for other countries in the world they all look like the pictures above

  4. Rossen says:

    Very good series. I like the colors and framing.

  5. It looks like a real stage, like that very much.
    Good luck
    Johannes



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