Skyline

For other uses, see Skyline (disambiguation).

A skyline is best described as the overall or partial view of a silhouette of a city's tall buildings and structures consisting of many skyscrapers in front of the sky in the background. 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. Skylines that are stretched out to a large (sometimes panoramic) view because of large cities or twin cities are called cityscapes. In many metropolises, skyscrapers play a significant role in defining the skyline.

In an early issue of Mad Magazine, the cover was designed as a parody of the cover of Life Magazine, with the type fonts and red edging; but instead of the impressive New York City skyscraper skyline, the skyline used on the MAD cover was that photographed from a restroom window in MAD's office building.

Gallery of images

• Auckland, New Zealand
  Auckland, New Zealand
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  Skyline of Berlin during the day
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  Skyline of Calgary at night
• Skyline of Chicago at night.
  Skyline of Chicago at night.
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  Skyline of Cincinnati from Kentucky.
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  Skyline of Frankfurt at night
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  Skyline of Hong Kong at night
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  Skyline of Houston, Texas.
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  Skyline of Kuala Lumpur
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  Skyline of London Canary Wharf
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  Skyline of Los Angeles
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  Skyline of Melbourne.
• Skyline of Miami
  Skyline of Miami
• Skyline of Minneapolis.
  Skyline of Minneapolis.
• Skyline of Mexico City.
  Skyline of Mexico City.
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  Skyline of Montreal at night
• The New York City skyline as visioned for 2011
  The New York City skyline as visioned for 2011
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  West_Umeda,Osaka
• Skyline of Paris La Défense
  Skyline of Paris La Défense
• Skyline of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  Skyline of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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  Skyline of San Francisco, California.
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  Skyline of Seattle at dusk.
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  Skyline of Shanghai
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  Skyline of Singapore
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  Skyline of Sydney
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  Skyline of Taipei at night
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  Skyline of central Tokyo
• Skyline of Toronto at night.
  Skyline of Toronto at night.
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  Skyline of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

External links

• Di Serio's top 15 Skylines
• The Skyline Project Collection of Skyline Photographs from across the United States
• The World's Best Skylines calculated ranking list of skylines
• Tallest Cities of the World
• Emporis ranking of cities by the visual impact of their skylines