Cityscape in China: Nanning City Park with Mature Trees and Fountains.

Cityscape in China: In this Nanning Cityscape there are fountains in a lake, providing a backdrop for Chinese wedding photos. There are mature tropical trees planted in the park. On the skyline modern towerblocks dominate the scene, viewed over fountains in a lake. Nanning has a city park with many interests to attract visitors seeking a respite from the bustle of the city. There are many attractions to enjoy, flowers, trees, lake with fountains, and for some couples it is an ideal location to have their wedding photos taken. The cityscape is here captured by camera, but in olden times it would have been the work or artists, with paintings and drawings, to make the cityscape scenes available to a much wider audience.

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Cityscape:
A cityscape is the urban equivalent of a landscape. Townscape is roughly synonymous with cityscape, though it of course implies the same difference in urban size and density (and even modernity) implicit in the difference between the words city and town. In urban design the terms refer to the configuration of built forms and interstitial space. In the visual arts a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area.

From the first century A.D. dates a fresco at the Baths of Trajan in Rome depicting a bird's eye view of an ancient city. In the Middle Ages cityscapes appeared as a background for portraits and biblical themes. From the 16th up to the 18th century numerous copperplate prints and etchings were made showing cities in bird's eye view. The function of these prints was to provide a map-like overview. Src: Wikipedia.org. '''''