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But where that earlier book centered on rootlessness and placelessness, "Spook Country" is more concerned with timelessness.
He is experiencing a feeling of placelessness.
Respecting the city's own identity through urban renewal will help rescue cities from the placelessness of contemporary international architecture.
Architects need to combat the placelessness that empires and corporations have imposed.
This parable on the dialectic of isolation is also a double monodrama, set in a no-man's land of placelessness.
My frustration with the toothbrush's placelessness made me worry.
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.
Is there anything more depressing than the urban sprawl of capitalism and the placelessness of mass consumption?