A skyline is best described as the overall or partial view of a silhouette of a city's tall buildings and structures consisting of many skyscrapers in front of the sky in the background. A silhouette is a view of some object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior with the silhouette usually being black A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable Building. There is no official definition or a precise cutoff height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper It can also be described as the artificial horizon that a city's overall structure creates. The horizon ( Ancient Greek ὁ ὁρίζων, /ho horídzôn/ from ὁρίζειν, "to limit" is the apparent line that separates Skylines serve as a kind of fingerprint of a city, as no two skylines are alike. A fingerprint is an impression of the friction ridges of all or any part of the finger For this reason news and sports programs, television shows, and movies often display the skyline of a city to set location.
Skylines that are stretched out to a large (sometimes panoramic) view because of large cities or twin cities are called cityscapes. In its most general sense a panorama is any wide view of a physical space Twin cities are a special case of two cities or urban centres which are born in close geographic proximity and then grow into each other over time In many metropolises, skyscrapers play a significant role in defining the skyline. A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable Building. There is no official definition or a precise cutoff height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper
Paul D. Spreiregen, FAIA, has called a skyline "a physical representation [of a city's] facts of life . Fellow of the American Institute of Architects ( FAIA) is an Postnomial, designating an individual who has been named a Fellow of the American Institute . . a potential work of art . . . its collective vista. "[1]
In general, larger cities have broader and taller skylines, though lower density cities often have smaller skylines than expected for city size. Taller buildings are found where either land value or desire for visibility is higher, and the tallest buildings in a city are usually office buildings. Because of this, the skyline of a city can be seen as symbolic of its influence and economy.
References
- ^ Paul D. Spreiregen (1965). Urban Design: The Architecture of Towns and Cities. McGraw-Hill. The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc, ( is a Publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City.
External links
- Di Serio's top 15 Skylines
- The Skyline Project Collection of Skyline Photographs from across the United States
- The World's Best Skylines calculated ranking list of skylines
- All About Skyscrapers
- Tallest Cities of the World
- Emporis ranking of cities by the visual impact of their skylines
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