„Oh, look, this place looks like Venice, with the gondolas and all.“

Such sentences are no rarity today, because as we heard in the last blog post, almost everyone has a certain image in mind while thinking of a well-known city. Recurring associations of a place, concise elements that emerge, stand out and characterize a city or a whole country. These associations often belong to the so-called landmarks of a city. Places that are probably on everyone’s „Bucket list“, so anyone who has ever been to New York has seen the Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Centre and the Times Square. In Paris, however, hardly anyone will leave the city without having seen the Eiffel Tower. In this way each city forms its own image by its sights or turning this angle upside down, the image of a city is shaped through the associations of people or the mediated content about one specific city.