By M. Hill Goodspeed, with photographs by James Blakeway and Chris Gjevre
A city's skyline is its signature—a visual means of identification that is unique, an image so strong and iconic that it remains in the photo archive of your mind forever. Begin your journey in North America, where cosmopolitan epicenters were built largely upon classical European models, which today resolutely butt against modern glass and steel beacons pointing toward the future. Then onward to South America, where a dramatic landscape is the backdrop for the stunning city of Rio de Janeiro. Cross the Atlantic to the magnificence of Renaissance Florence and Venice, the ancient monuments of Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome, the medieval steeples of Munich and Budapest, and their modern counterparts. From London to Paris to Stockholm, Oslo, and Bergen, this book vaults through European history and beyond, to Sydney, Perth, Istanbul, Hong Kong, and Singapore, where exotic history meets modern sophistication. Containing full-color photographs over two-and-a-half feet long, along with historical photographs and bird's-eye-view maps, Skylines of the World: Yesterday and Today is a veritable feast of 49 of the world's major cities presented for your reading and viewing pleasure.
216 pages, 300 illustrations (95 in full color), 17 1/2 in. x 12 1/2 in. Hardcover; clothbound, with jacket.
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