cityscape

[sit-ee-skeyp]

noun

1. a view of a city, especially a large urban center.

   The cityscape is impressive as one approaches New York from the sea.

2. a picture representing such a view.

3. the characteristic appearance of a city.

   She has been documenting changes in the cityscape for 20 years.

cityscape

/ ˈsɪtɪskeɪp /

noun

1. an urban landscape; view of a city

Word History and Origins

Origin of cityscape¹

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60; city + -scape

Example Sentences

And he took as his signature subject matter the factories and cityscapes of the industrial north, close to Manchester, where he lived for his entire life.

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The characterful, low-rise cityscape of mustard-coloured French colonial mansions was transformed into another Asian high-rise forest of glass and steel towers.

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A post on the Disney Parks Blog hints that the new film will also capture various American cityscapes.

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He also signals, with chapters on highway-building, housing and incipient suburbanization, new forces that would radically reshape both the cityscape and patterns of living.

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The report could offer more insight into the larger safety of other “steel-moment-frame buildings” that dot the Los Angeles cityscape.

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Related Words

• art 
• canvas 
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• depiction 
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