Every act of mapping is selection. What to represent, what not. When you look at cities in 3D with Google Earth, it’s a weird filtered vision of reality. These pics are screenshots from Hong Kong and Shanghai. Their googlefied representation consists of logos, corporate headquarters and skyscrapers. The rest is not there: in a way, a strangely accurately curated view of the modern global urbanism. Well, for the quirks, there’s always Street View.
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