Skyline
A skyline is the overall or partial view of a city's buildings and structures against the sky. It can also be described as the artificial horizon that a city's overall structure creates. Skylines serve as a kind of fingerprint of a city, as no two skylines are alike. For this reason news and sports programs, television shows, and movies often display the skyline of a city to set location. The Sky Line of New York City was a new term in 1896, when it was the title of a color lithograph by Charles Graham for the color supplement of the New-York Journal.[1]
Paul D. Spreiregen, FAIA, has called a skyline "a physical representation [of a city's] facts of life ... a potential work of art ... its collective vista."[2]
In general, larger cities have broader and taller skylines, though lower density cities often have smaller skylines than expected for city size.[citation needed] Taller buildings are found where either land value or desire for visibility is higher, and the tallest buildings in a city are usually office buildings.[citation needed] Because of this, the skyline of a city can be seen as symbolic of the city's influence and economy.[citation needed]
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- ^ New York Public Library: "Moving Uptown": "When Charles Graham's view of New York was published, the new term used in the title, "sky line," caught on immediately."
- ^ Paul D. Spreiregen (1965). Urban Design: The Architecture of Towns and Cities. McGraw-Hill. http://books.google.com/books?id=6zYFAAAAMAAJ.
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- Di Serio's top 15 Skylines
- The Skyline Project has a collection of skyline photographs from across the United States.
- The World's Best Skylines calculates ranking by height and breadth of skylines.
- All About Skyscrapers
- Tallest Cities of the World calculated ranking strictly by height.
- Emporis ranking of cities by the visual impact of their skylines
- Skyline on m-w.com
- Skyline Whitespace Exhibitions
