A series of graphic art prints by London-based artist and graphic designer Yoni Alter. Each print of the series features the shapes of a city’s landmarks accurate to scale.
a person's hand holding an image of a city
City Shapes Learning Games
Studying cities
The logical expanse of a city is a mirror of the accumulation of its capital. With this understanding, we as dwellers of the city have no real influence over the rights to the city. British urbanist and marxist David Harvey argues for the right to the city being that cities should value their inhabitants over private property and profit. He in turn acknowledges that the city is continually remade to absorb capital, its streets and structures shaped to serve economic growth.
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a red city map is shown with black and white lines in the center, as well as buildingsan aerial view of a city with lots of tall buildings and people in the center
City Shapes Drawing Ideas
an image of a city map that looks like it has been altered to look like a paintingan orange bus driving past tall buildings on a city street with people walking in the foreground
City Shapes
Ecosystem Doodle, Hills Line Drawing, Storybook Landscape Illustration, Square Space Design, Small Village Illustration, Place Design, Whimsical Illustration Style, Doodle Map, Utah DoodlesWallpaperthe colorful building is next to the waterShapes of Cities – Art Prints by Yoni Alterthe city skyline is covered in multicolored squaresPerfect Things, Perspective Pictures, Artsy Photography, Pattern Photography, Brutalist Architecture, A Level Art, Black Aesthetic Wallpaper, Architecture Building, Black Aesthetican image of a city with red roads and buildingsan image of a futuristic city in the skyan image of a city skyline made up of many different types of buildings and signsblack and white photograph of abstract shapes
