If, one day, for some mysterious reason, all the buildings, settlements, suburbs and structures built after 1945 - especially those commonly called "modern" - vanished from the face of the earth, would we mourn their loss? Would the disappear-ance of prefabricated tower blocks, mass housing estates, commercial strips, business parks, motorway junctions, modular university campuses, schools, and new towns, damage the identity of our favourite cities and landscapes?
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