Cityscape

Urban landscape is in a geographical understanding of a sub-category of the cultural landscape in contrast to the natural landscape.

In the visual arts refers to the urban landscape analogy as a subject of landscape painting, after which is not the landscape as untouched nature, but the artificial environment of the city itself. Works of this genre leave any further subdivided into

• The vista, which depicts a panorama of the city, usually overlooking a river, a canal, a square or a street, the linear perspective draw the eye into the depths,
• Images that have the interface between town and country on the topic and the two subjects connect vista and landscape, and
• The urban interior, in which the image section is restricted to only a few buildings.

The first vedutenartigen city panoramas created graphics on the late Middle Ages north of the Alps, especially in the Netherlands and Germany. In the Dutch 17th century painting cityscapes of the second and third type first emerged in the painting. Your triumph came in the 18th century, especially the Venetian vista.

Other uses

• The urban landscape was a model in urban planning of the 20th century
• As a literary term he used for aesthetic or situational description of modern urban spaces