What is beauty?

One of the questions my work on the tourist landscape will ask is what is beauty?  Do our preconceived notions of romantic pictorial landscapes which have always been popular as we see in work from artists throughout history in both the East and the West prevent us from seeing the artificial as beautiful?  Or do we collectively embrace the artificial landscape as having a modern beauty?  Does the infrastructure put in place to make our experience of nature as painless as possible have its own beauty or is it just a monument to our species’s lust to control everything we encounter?

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