Mapping the Unfindable

Abstract

In the transnational economy, many cities are undergoing erasures similar to what struck downtown Los Angeles during the fifties and sixties. 1 Recently, I visited the Potsdammer Platz in Berlin, a vast petting zoo for the global economy, larger than all of downtown Los Angeles. Memories of World War II and the Berlin Wall are dwarfed by the parachute entryway to the Sony Media Center. Potsdammer Platz is like five Century Cities laid end to end, arguably the largest monument in Europe to collective forgetting. On the other end of the globe, Shanghai has added 3,000 skyscrapers in the last decade. They have erased much of he city’s older core and are literally sinking like Venice into the unstable swampland where Shanghai began. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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