Ella Raidel
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.
