townscape
Portion of the urban fabric that can be viewed at once. It was a term much used from the 1940s, analogous to landscape… Many historic towns have pleasing townscapes revealed as the pedestrian moves through sequences of spaces, and the AR’s campaign proposed that the study of townscape (pioneered by Geddes, Parker, Sitte, and Unwin) would provide precedents for urban redevelopment as well as for the New Towns that were planned in Britain after the 1939-45 war. However, Modernists rejected the concept as Picturesque, leading to abandonment of its application since 1945, with obvious results. (Curl & Wilson, 2016)