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Taipei_Scan is a compilation of real estate advertisements from Taiwan’s newspaper.


Cities are not places which people dwell upon, but a screen where people to project their

imagination collectively and to forester the dream-land of living. The urban surface as sociopolitical

expression resulting from vibrant transforms of global conditions can only be seen form the outside

as one only perceives one ' s gestalt from the mirror. Asian cities, contrasting to the cities in Europe

and the States, conglomerate and expand in an unexpecting rate within a condensed time --

skyscrapers arise in few months;communities take shape in one night; and malls, theaters,

shops, supermarkets can suddenly weave into the fabrics of people ' s lives. Asian cities are the site unmarked.


The rapid changes of socio-economic driving forces convert urban space into boundless and scattering suburban

landscape, stuffed with high population. Still the real-estate companies are boasting of  a mirage which filtered

by the strategy of advertising with a make-up of European touches -- where the culture meets the nature and

where a good life could be insured.  


" VIENNA ... EXELLENT LOCATION , SEEING YOUR LIFE IN ETERNITY, " said in one real estate advertisement.