Almost a half of the Mediterranean coast is occupied by buildings. Benidorm, on the Costa Blanca is an emblematic case of how speculation has started a process that homogenizes the identity of places, creating standards imposed from the outside rather than enhance local peculiarities. After the 60’s Benidorm has been transformed into a surreal cluster of skyscrapers directly on the beach, where tourists and foreign investors are now the majority of the population whose mother thongue is English just in the middle of Spain. The few natives call the town Beniyork, making fun of it but at the same time denouncing the ever expanding overbuilding.

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