the fact of being similar to many other places and having no special character

Architects need to combat the placelessness that empires and corporations have imposed. 建筑师需要与大企业和公司强加的无特色设计要求作斗争。

Respecting the city's own identity through urban renewal will help rescue cities from the placelessness of contemporary international architecture. 在城市重建时尊重城市自身特色，这将有助于将城市从当代国际建筑的千篇一律中拯救出来。

the fact of not being in, or connected with, any particular place

He is experiencing a feeling of placelessness.

But where that earlier book centered on rootlessness and placelessness, "Spook Country" is more concerned with timelessness. 但是，较之先前的那本书所聚焦的无根基无位置感，《幽灵之国》则更关注永恒。