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The national symbols of liberty
- as sites of worldly, collective vision


Place of the highest form of economic abstraction
- e.g. the Stock Exchange


The Mayors in their offices
– as sites of democratic justification power


Public mail boxes in use
- as symbol of collective trust


Teehouses / Coffee houses ore other places
– as places of encounter


Shopping windows
- display dummies as measure models for men and women


The Campus
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as places of higher education


The typical markets
- with regional fruit, fish, fowl...


The typical national restaurants
- as place of sociability


The most interesting immigrant neighbourhoods
- as place of inter cultural daring


The highest buildings
- as symbol of architectural vision


The most important train stations
- as place of arrival and departure on iron tracks


The most striking contrasts between old and new
- as symbol of tension


Regional transport, underground or bus stops
- as symbol of regional mobility


The most elegant shopping arcades
- as symbol of satisfaction


Street-Food
- as symbol of unconscious nomadism


The traditional wedding ceremonies
- as symbol of family identity


Most traditional public toilets still in use
- as place of intimate contact in the public sphere


The most important religious places
- as place of contemplative power


New graves
- as symbol of „eternal” rest


The most important national sports stadiums
- as symbol of collective enthusiasm


1. appendix: McDonald‘s
– global, centrally controlled CI


Places of change
- e.g. Gasometer in Vienna


2. appendix: Chinese restaurants
– global, individually controlled CI
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