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This is a general principle. When you work on putting objects together in larger scales, you’re working on architectural design. Yes, in the small scale component assembly is engineering tooling, but on the large scale it is architectural design. Ultimately the large scale has to follow some common architectural principles to be accessible to humans. That is, unless you are designing a larger system that is 100% robot automated. However, chances are that for larger systems, it will be all too tempting to send humans into the system to investigate failures, so it might as well be designed to accommodate humans to some extent, even though the standard operation may center around optimizing for machines.
And the smaller design scale? Like I’ve covered earlier, the preferred working method for this is a computer interface working method.
What about the larger scale? There’s Urban Design, but historically there was no such design at that scale: cities would simply evolve “chaotically.” The larger scale? The main design at the next scale up regards Interstate freeways. Yeah, mainly transportation networks meant to connect big cities that are spaced geographically far apart. Beyond that there is state, country, and province border design. Beyond that are the coastlines between land and the oceans, which are shaped mainly by nature and not by humans. That’s it. Humans are mainly terrestrial creatures that live on the Earth’s surface where there is breathable oxygen. Despite the large surface area of the oceans, those ellude humans who can’t live within them. Likewise, the large volume of the Earth’s mantle not only eludes humans, but most larger animal life forms too. Finally there’s the whole Earth and the Solar system, which is still much beyond human control, although still within the scope of human comprehension. This is the “new” mother nature that humans cannot shape, only observe.