consider architecture on the web: a place (website) presents very little surface to the outside, but is much larger on the inside
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it's twitter's frontpage vs everything that happens on it; the "walls" of any social site are plastered with profiles, virtual skins
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isn't that some building that covers its walls with the skins of its inhabitants
"soylent green is people" doesn't even begin to describe it
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many traditional rules of architecture don't apply - w/out bodies, who needs buildings?
but some sort of space does emerge from our movement
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I've thought before that you could apply the original, purely materialist/geographical concept of Ley Lines to cyberspace.
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Cyberspace as is is completely man made, but what about when it's old enough that parts have completely lost their meaning?
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Right now, we don't have natural features like rivers, but it may happen