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A landscape that traded trees for towers and never looked back.
means The visual character of a city — its skyline, streets, and built environment seen as one composed scene.
from A 1940s splice of urban (Latin urbs, city) onto the suffix of landscape, claiming the cityscape as art worth framing.
Cousin wordsSeascape, moonscape, and the cynical hellscape.
Painter's termLong used by artists before urban planners borrowed it.
Suffix logicThe -scape simply means a view of something.