flatscapes

Noun

flatscape (plural flatscapes)

1. 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.1988, A. Papadakēs, Deconstruction in architecture
2. 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 [...]1999, Maude Schuyler Clay, Delta land
3. 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   • In industrial civilization, environmental variety has been replaced by what has been called "'a flatscape", lacking intentional depth and providing possibilities only for commonplace and mediocre experiences.1992, Lothar Fietz, Paul Hoffmann, Hans-Werner Ludwig, Regionalität