Urban Panorama

See also: Panorama (homonymy)

A urban Panorama , Translation proposed for the Anglicism skyline , is a partial or total sight Immeuble S and structures high of a Ville. One can also describe it like the artificial Horizon drawn by the overall structure of the city. This term is often employed when the presence of scrapes-ciels gives to this horizon a spectacular or strongly recognizable character.

History

If one can speak about urban panorama for certain old cities such as San Gimignano in Toscane (14th century) or Shibam with the Yemen (16th century), it is starting from the end of the 19th century that a race effreinée with the height produced in the Nouveau world (the United States and Canada primarily) the strongly recognizable urban first paranoramas.

At the 20th century, this kind of landscape developed on all the continents. These architectural developments are often synonymous with growth. Nowadays, the best examples of urban panoramas illustrating this fact is in China.

Photographic typology

  • Seen diurnal : the most traditional sight on a panorama of east city taken in the light of the day. With the Twilight or the paddle, one can benefit from the variations of Couleur on the horizon in Arrière-plan.

  • Silhouette : this sight is taken in such a way that the buildings form a block without interstice between them, which gives a vision of the segmentation of the levels attics.
  • Seen night : an urban panorama taken of Night. This sight emphasizes interior lightings of scrapes-ciels and the illuminations of the exterior facades. In the cities located at the edge of a stretch of water, the reflection on the watery basin takes part in the produced effect of the sight.

Gallery

Employment in the media

  • the generic of the German Televised series the destiny of LISA is concluded on a Dessin representing the urban panorama from Berlin, where is held the action, with the Fernsehturm and the Porte from particularly recognizable Brandebourg.

See too

Related articles

External bonds

  • SkyscraperPage
  • Birmingham the U.K.
  • Skyscrapersnews
  • Skyscrapercity site of proselytes of the subject
  • Skycraper City Skyline Rankings
  • The World' S Best Skylines, list and comparison between various urban panoramas
  • Emporis Skyline Rankings
  • Panorama Urbain
  • Diserio' S signal 15 Skylines
  • panography on the town of Paris, the Pole and Morocco

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