city landscapes
Metropolitan scenic views
City landscapes are urban scenes or views, typically featuring buildings, streets, and other elements of the built environment.
The term appears in photography, painting, and urban planning to describe both the physical arrangement of a city and artistic depictions of it: She photographs city landscapes at dawn when the streets are empty.
Compare cityscape, the more common single-word form.
- subwaysUnderground urban railways
- marketplacesVenues for commercial exchange
- highwaysMajor intercity roads
- rush hourBusiest commuting period
- facadesMisleading external appearances
skyscrapers · concrete jungle · street corners · town squares · courtyards · canals · green belts · monuments · botanical gardens · riversides · tramlines · bike lanes · rooftop gardens · bridges · pedestrian walkways · sidewalk cafes · fountains · cafes
city landscapesrural landscapes
Non-urban natural terrain
countryside · pastoral scenes · farmland · pastoral scenery · agricultural land
city landscapeswilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
natural landscapes · untouched nature · pristine wilderness · forests · mountains
city, cities, cityscape, cityscapes, citizen, citizens, citizenship, civic, civil