La Cité de la Méditerranée
In Marseille, a new neighborhood / new image on the ruins of a dreamed-and-past industrial past.
Short walks in the City of the Mediterranean, one of those many privatized public spaces that have become non-places with standardized concepts
I explore the full-scale model, walking under the gaze of surveillance cameras toward the conquering sentinel towers, glass soldiers at the border posts of poverty.
The sleek lines and shapes of locked buildings accompany the crossing of this impersonal, interchangeable world.
A merchant city, where dynamic customers move from one air-conditioned bubble to another through icing-sugar aisles.
In the distance, cranes echo the urban conquest, fueled by real estate speculation.
The new City rises from the ground:
A skyline fantasized on the tracing paper of the globalized city.
Immaculate architecture, reflecting a prohibited social energy.
Imagination without imagination, varnished in a beauty-less modernity.
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