Paper long abstract:

While there is a wide discussion about the east expansion of the EC, the same happens almost unnoticed and inofficial at the south border, where it is first of all tourism that changes the whole social field of the Mediterranian.

Dealing with a huge migration to Europe, we find European moving especially to the south where within the last decade a new unnoticed city has been growing: "Mediterrania". It is not a city in the classical sense, but following the applicants dissertation "touristic-landscapes", 2001, we see a "linear - knot - city" (following "punkt und Linie zu Fläche", W.Kandinsky, 1926): first- and second-row settlements for touristic / domestic use with knots as a) historic centers and b) airports.

It uses the existing as a scenery for its event ("un paysage d´evénements", Paul Virilio, Galilée, Paris 1996), but in the same time the infrastructure to para-site the location.

While the European coast (including the Turkish coastline) widely is urbanised in this sense, the "race" at the North African seaside has just been started.

http://www.spaceunit.net/presse/mediterrania.pdf