cityscape

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  1. noun An artistic representation, such as a painting or photograph, of a city.
  2. noun A city or section of a city regarded as a scene: "the vast cityscape of lower Manhattan” (New Yorker).

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  • And this profligate cityscape is populated by characters--some met, some merely mentioned--with names equally evocative: Porphyria Levant, Estella Velvet, Brother Orphelin, Cerberus Cresset, Mavortian von Heber. —  FSF - March2006
  • She glanced surreptitiously at Hanan, now humming softly to himself as he gazed out at the passing cityscape, the knot in her stomach tightening. —  Angelmass
  • Just the cityscape, still and cold and indifferent. —  Without Fail by Lee Child
  • One was a single-direction gate that would take him into a nightmarish cityscape, an urban dystopia rife with crime and infamy where the only semblance of order was a brotherhood of bounty hunters. —  The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 2005
  • Each passerby had a quick choice to make, one familiar to commuters in any urban area where the occasional street performer is part of the cityscape: Do you stop and listen? —  Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech
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