"flatscape" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1988, A. Papadakēs, Deconstruction in architecture:",
          "text": "This non-place could be the flatscape of a parking lot, or a suburban sprawl littered with supermarkets, parkways, little houses and garden plots.",
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          "ref": "2010, Douglas Coupland, Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!:",
          "text": "Other rooms filled with other men roaming a flatscape only recently wired with electricity and now braising in radio waves.",
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          "ref": "1999, Maude Schuyler Clay, Delta land:",
          "text": "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 [...]",
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          "ref": "2003, Perri O'Shaughnessy, Unfit To Practice:",
          "text": "A flatscape of houses with the San Francisco Bay beyond unfolded outside Ford's office window.",
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          "ref": "2004, Dayne Sherman, Welcome to the Fallen Paradise:",
          "text": "The interstate was at least a couple of football fields wide. I turned down Old Sawmill Road, a country road that wasn't a thoroughfare. It was a two-lane blacktop with no shoulder, winding its way through the piney woods flatscape.",
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          "ref": "1992, Lothar Fietz, Paul Hoffmann, Hans-Werner Ludwig, Regionalität:",
          "text": "In industrial civilization, environmental variety has been replaced by what has been called \"'a flatscape\", lacking intentional depth and providing possibilities only for commonplace and mediocre experiences.",
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          "ref": "1997, Michael Parker Pearson, Colin Richards, Architecture and order: approaches to social space:",
          "text": "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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