La Cité de la Méditerranée
Marseilles, new district / new image on the ruins of an industrial, dreamed and revolved past.
Little walks in La Cité de la Méditerranée, one of these multiple non-places born from standardised conception.
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II'm exploring the real scale model and i'm walking under the watching eye of the CCTV cameras towards the defiant watching towers, standing like glass soldiers at the borders of the poverty.
The refined lines ans shapes of locked buildings go along with the crossing of this impersonnal and interchangeable world.
Merchant city, the dynamic customers are going from an air conditioning to the other, walking through icing sugar paths.
Far way, the cranes keep on making the urban conquest echo according to the property speculations.
The New City springs out from the earth:
Skyline from a dreamy world drawn ont the tracing paper of the globalized city.
Spotlen architecture reflecting a prohibited social energy.
An imaginery world with no fancy that is the gloss of a plain modernity.