Cityscapes

thumb|upright=1.3|Skyline of Lower Manhattan in 2021. The term "Skyline" was first used for [[New York City in 1896.]] A skyline is the outline or shape viewed near the horizon. It can be created by a city's overall structure, or by human intervention in a rural setting, or in nature that is formed where the sky meets buildings or the land.

thumb|right|Painting of the Dam Square in Amsterdam, by [[Gerrit Adriaensz Berckheyde, ]] thumb|right|Photograph of Dresden, Germany, in the 1890s In the visual arts, a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area. It is the urban equivalent of a landscape. Townscape is roughly synonymous with cityscape, though it implies the same difference in urban size and density (and even modernity) implicit in the difference between the words city and town. In urban design the terms refer to th

dockland district, or area alongside a body of water

painting by Henri Rousseau

Hong Kong writer and scholar (1949–2013)

thumb|A rooftopper on top of the Zürich Hauptbahnhof railway station in Switzerland|alt=A person sits on the ledge of a building looking down at the street below thumb|thumbtime=1:49|Buildering and rooftopping on a cable-stayed bridge in Kyiv, Ukraine

painting by Alfred Sisley

painting by Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont