urban skyline
City's jagged horizon
An urban skyline is the outline of a city's buildings and structures as seen against the sky, typically viewed from a distance.
Distinctive skylines become visual signatures of major cities—Manhattan's cluster of skyscrapers, Seattle's Space Needle, Dubai's Burj Khalifa.
The term often carries connotations of development, modernity, and metropolitan identity.
The urban skyline glittered at dusk.
New construction dramatically altered the urban skyline over the decade.
- cityscapeView of urban architecture
- skyscrapersExtremely tall urban buildings
- glass towersTransparent-walled tall buildings
- towersTall vertical structures
- horizonApparent earth-sky meeting
silhouette · downtown · highrise · rooftop · rooftop bar · metropolis · concrete jungle · concrete · steel and glass · glass · steel · panorama · bird's eye view · nightscape · city lights · lights · buildings · architecture
- city skylinestowers, cityscapes, glass towers
- horizonsvisible horizon, flat horizon, ocean horizon, endless horizon, event horizon
urban skylinerural landscape
Unindustrialized terrain with farms
mountain range · forest canopy · untouched wilderness · tundra · savanna
urban skylinebackcountry
Sparsely populated wilderness areas
virgin territory · hinterland · outback · the bush · no man's land
urban skylinevirgin forest
Forest never harvested
pristine nature · backcountry · ghost town · abandoned settlement · rural hamlet
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