Paris—New York—Shanghai In his new project Dutch artist Hans Eijkelboom creates a comparative study of three major contemporary metropolises, showing how culture has become universal and instant communication has united East and West, diminishing individuality and collapsing geographic boundaries. Paris stands in for the nineteenth century; New York the twentieth and Shanghai the twenty-first. As Eijkelboom writes, “Globalization, combined with the desire of cities for visually spectacular…