caa a22 4500 386309922 CHVBK 20180307111542.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0361233300006736 doi S0361233300006736 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0361233300006736 Taylor William R. New York and the Origin of the Skyline: The Visual City as Text [Elektronische Daten] [William R. Taylor] How do we visualize our large cities? What kinds of shapes, overall, do we imagine them to have? These questions would have brought different answers in each major period of urban change in our country's development. Each period seemed to develop a favored perspective. Eighteenth and early-19th-century New Yorkers thought of the city as it looked when one approached it by sea from the harbor. Mid-19th-century viewers imagined a city seen from a bird's eye view like that provided by the Latting Observatory on 42nd Street, stretching to the north. By the end of the century, the approach to the city by rail and road began to encourage a new perspective on the city, silhouetted against the skywhat we have come to know as the skyline view. Each of these perspectives on the city reflects something about the urban culture of the period that created and favored the perspective. In the values and meaning that have become associated with it, the skyline is no exception. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988 Prospects Cambridge University Press 13(1988-10), 225-248 0361-2333 13<225 1988 13 PTS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006736 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006736 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Taylor William R. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Prospects Cambridge University Press 13(1988-10), 225-248 0361-2333 13<225 1988 13 PTS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge