Are Information and Communications Technologies disassembling the man-made physical world around us - that which is a manifestation of the collective mind layered down over the centuries in everything from field patterns to state-of-the-art urban landscapes? How are they doing this and what kind of landscapes will emerge? Built landscapes are expressions of basic social needs translated into structural designs and spatial relationships. They are ideas, concepts, poetic conceits, rules and those forces which shape them. These are converted into tangible realities, paradigm platforms on an underlying natural landscape. They are one way in which we as a society express what we know - and what we know is an accumulation of what has been gathered over time, many centuries perhaps and either solely used amongst ourselves or shared out to others sometimes regardless of whether or not they wish to share or have any real need for it in the topographical environments in which they live and have evolved socially.
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