0 the fact of being similar to many other places and having no special character:
Architects need to combat the placelessness that empires and corporations have imposed.
Respecting the city's own identity through urban renewal will help rescue cities from the placelessness of contemporary international architecture.
He is experiencing a feeling of placelessness.
But where that earlier book centered on rootlessness and placelessness, "Spook Country" is more concerned with timelessness.
Is there anything more depressing than the urban sprawl of capitalism and the placelessness of mass consumption?
He takes his mixed motives to a variety of symbolic settings, theme-parks of contemporary placelessness: the airport in Los Angeles, the chaotic marketplace of Hong Kong or the hurriedly constructed Olympic village in Atlanta.
My frustration with the toothbrush's placelessness made me worry.
This parable on the dialectic of isolation is also a double monodrama, set in a no-man's land of placelessness.
