flatscape
Collocations
4VERB + FLATSCAPE
pass, roaming
FLATSCAPE + NOUN
people
PREP.
through
ADV.
only, recently
Definitions
noun
Any flat surface or area; a platform.
This non-place could be the flatscape of a parking lot, or a suburban sprawl littered with supermarkets, parkways, little houses and garden plots.
Other rooms filled with other men roaming a flatscape only recently wired with electricity and now braising in radio waves.
A flat landscape.
Tractor trailers pass through the flatscape, the few people whom we do see are wearing modern clothing, a billboard advertises Coca-Cola, and some of the dogs are wearing collars, so they must live somewhere outside the barren world [...]
A flatscape of houses with the San Francisco Bay beyond unfolded outside Ford's office window.
A landscape lacking distinguishable or interesting features; a plain or monotonous landscape.
In industrial civilization, environmental variety has been replaced by what has been called "'a flatscape", lacking intentional depth and providing possibilities only for commonplace and mediocre experiences.
Several phenomenologists have remarked on the problems of modern living, where architectural trends are towards a placeless geography, a meaningless pattern of similar buildings, a 'flatscape'.
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3This non-place could be the flatscape of a parking lot, or a suburban sprawl littered with supermarkets, parkways, little houses and garden plots.
WiktionaryOther rooms filled with other men roaming a flatscape only recently wired with electricity and now braising in radio waves.
WiktionaryTractor trailers pass through the flatscape, the few people whom we do see are wearing modern clothing, a billboard advertises Coca-Cola, and some of the dogs are wearing collars, so they must live so
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