booksnbuildings:

City with a large bridge, Wolfgang Huber 1542

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(via drawingdetail)

urbanination:

Milan, Italy with Torre Velasca in the background. 

thisbigcity:

Wonder how New York acted so swiftly post-Sandy to provide citizens and visitors with an accurate subway map? Here’s the answer.

drawingdetail:

Thomas Girtin, Sketch for the Eidometropolis: Panorama, Great Surrey Street and Christchurch, Southwark, ca. 1797-1802. Pen and brush with brown ink, with graphite ruling on moderately thick, slightly textured, blued white, wove paper, 29.2 x 50.2 cm (11.5 x 19.76 in). Yale Center for British Art.

urbanthesia:

L1003306 by sswee38823 on Flickr.

intrusionesarch:

A solitary brownstone on land being cleared for a 20-storey block in 1959. New York.

Photograph: Dmitri Kessel/Getty Images

Source: The Guardian

urbanthesia:

DSC_0501 by Bobfantastic on Flickr.

drawingdetail:

Joseph Pennell, St. Paul’s Pavement, London, c. 1900. Etching on paper, 21.5 x 27.9 cm.

urbanthesia:

Skyline de Madrid. by Víctor M. Peña on Flickr.

urbanination:

Another bright spot in Philadelphia. 

urbanthesia:

Downtown Boston by btmayo on Flickr.

urbanthesia:

Philadelphia:bridge out! by moocatmoocat on Flickr.

urbanthesia:

Downtown Philly at Night by kevbo1983 on Flickr.

urbanthesia:

Philly twilight skyline by moocatmoocat on Flickr.