ABSTRACT
Our modern society is changing. As a result of an increasing prosperity and mobility, social identities are becoming more complex and mutable. In the past, the identity of a person was closely related to that of places, for it was mainly defined by the person’s social and regional background. Nowadays globalization has led to a state where the original identity of people and their connectedness to specific cities or places seems to disappear. Using networks that transcend place and time, the modern individual identifies himself less and less by local communities and local spatial structures.
