"The enclosure of the world seems finally to be completed before our eyes with the globalization of the economy … In contrast to the planet, however, the city tends to become boundless, blending into territory … This absence of borders constitutes a rupture with the Western landscape tradition, which used to depend invariably on a pictorial framing. Subsequently, we understand better how photography or cinema interprets the contemporary urban landscape more readily than does an art such as painting. The framings that they propose have a greater capacity for instability, and this instability resonates well with that of a limitless landscape."