Carbon Copy

There are seven copies of Venice around the World, and new copies are on their way. We have two Topkapi Palaces, one with a swimming pool. In Istanbul you can live in concrete “Ottoman” houses built in 2011, or have fun in a “Yalı overlooking the fake Bosphorus” in Halkalı.

China is secretly copying the Austrian village of Hallstatt while Egypt is struggling to find a way to get the international copyrights for the pyramids.  If we look to our cities : they are already the Paris of the Middle East, Barcelona of East Mediterranean or the Dubai of the Aegean. Welcome to “the city as a theme park”.