Townscape

Normally apartments in New York are turned in, and I wanted to open it all up to the townscape. ❋ Julie Iovine (2011)

Many of his pictures have become so deeply ingrained in popular culture that some of our romanticized views of cities and landscapes stem from photos made by Cartier-Bresson, such as his shot of a townscape in the Italian village of L'Aquila, taken in 1951. ❋ Goran Mijuk (2011)

In the art market, vivid stories do much of the selling—and on Wednesday, a collector paid Sotheby's in London a record $40 million for Schiele's earthen-hued townscape from 1914, "Houses with Colorful Laundry Suburb II." ❋ Kelly Crow (2011)

And certainly not that what was left of an engineering marvel like this bridge would be erased from the townscape. ❋ Peter Ashley (2008)

Britain as a hard-working townscape by LS Lowry with wind turbines rather than brick chimneys? ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Wat Khili is an example of what Unesco World Heritage committee members in 1995 called a "unique townscape" the succesful fusion of "traditional architectural and urban structures and those of the European colonial rulers of the 19th and 20th centuries." ❋ Unknown (2010)

And where most European urban residences opened out onto a public courtyard, the Dutch home opened out into the street in the front and at the back onto a private garden, as shown in the townscape below. ❋ Linda (2008)

At the time of its listing, Unesco said the aim was to preserve a "unique townscape" that "represents, to an exceptional extent, the successful fusion of the traditional [Laotian] architectural and urban structures and those of the European colonial rulers of the 19th and 20th centuries." ❋ Unknown (2010)

But the 80-year-old Korean War veteran and life-long resident of Long Island City has become a bit of a local celebrity for his efforts to capture the area's semi-industrial townscape before it completely succumbs to gentrification. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thanks to its 1995 listing as a Unesco World Heritage Site, Luang Prabang's colonial-era townscape is still largely intact. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This book is a mash note to the mind, but place has everything to do with that: Edinburgh "was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a city of dark nights and candlelight, and intellect." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Jim has sent a very short video of a watercolor townscape-in-progress. ❋ James Gurney (2008)

I really think these Provincial townscape and industrial scenes communicate something to us Europeans -like a less contrived Hopper perhaps ....... ❋ James Gurney (2008)

Buildings such as the New Palace of Westminster or the Grand Midland Hotel fronting St Pancras Station are today once more much loved features of the London townscape. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There are Western-style houses, trains and cars running along busy streets, airplanes flying in the sky, and subways passing beneath a townscape bristling with skyscrapers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Many of the questions we are asking are new ones, about the origins of the city: when its streets were laid out, how the densely packed townscape of A.D. 79 came into being, the relationships between rich and poor, and how the masses earned a living. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Dusk was gathering, sending lavender shadows across the white townscape. ❋ Janet Dailey (1984)