The Real Thing - Real Life in a Copycat World

Sixty Eiffel towers, a dozen of Great Pyramids of Giza, thirty leaning towers of Pisa, over eighty copies of the White House… Architecture doppelgangers are multiplying all over the world. Between lucrative investments, architectural piracy, and modern tourism, each of these places expresses an aspect of how our planet is being transformed through globalization. Do these places have something in common? How different are they from copies of the past? Are they more than just copies?