Native speakers of English, please could you help me with my English?

I am reading a rather complex book about architecture (in particular about Frank Lloyd Wright) and find it difficult to understand some phrases. What does the phrase "human occupation" mean in this context (does it mean "places occupied by humans (residential settlements) or does it mean workplaces where people pursue their occupation"?):

The architect identified the new forces which would transform the entire basis of Western civilization as follows: (1) Electrification, the communicational annihilation of distance and the constant illumination of human occupation; (2) Mechanical Mobilization, the immeasurable widening of human contact due to the invention of the airplane and the automobile, and finally (3) Organic Architecture which, although it always escaped any precise definition, seems to have eventually meant for Wright the economic creation of built form and space in accordance with the latent principles of nature as these may be revealed through the application of the reinforced-concrete construction.