The urban world around us – in pictures

From the early skyscrapers of New York to the Torre David vertical slum in Venezuela.

5000 W Carling Way, 1967/1999 (Los Angeles)
Photograph: Ed Ruscha

Paris, Montparnasse, 1993
Photograph: Andreas Gursky/VG Bild-Kunst/DACS/Sprüth Magers

Apartment Building, Avenue Bagamoyo, Beira, Mozambique, 2008
Photograph: Guy Tillim/Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg

Apartment Building, Beira, Mozambique, 2007
Photograph: Guy Tillim/Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg

Stahl House, Los Angeles, California, Architect Pierre Koenig, 1960
Photograph: Julius Shulman/Getty Research Institute/J Paul Getty Trust

World Trade Center (Minoru Yamasaki), 1997
Photograph: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Marina City – Goldberg Associates, 2001 (Chicago)
Photograph: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Chongqing IV (Sunday Picnic), Chongqing Municipality, 2006
Photograph: Nadav Kander/Flowers Gallery

Cooling plant, Dubai, 2009
Photograph: Bas Princen

‘Mokattam Ridge’ (Garbage Recycling City), Cairo, 2009
Photograph: Bas Princen

Torre David #1 – facade, 2011 (Caracas)
Photograph: Iwan Baan/Perry Rubenstein Gallery, LA

Night View, New York, 1932
Photograph: Berenice Abbott/Getty/Howard Greenberg Gallery

Copan, 2002
Photograph: Andreas Gursky/VG Bild-Kunst/DACS/Sprüth Magers

Chongqing II, Chongqing Municipality
Photograph: Nadav Kander/Flowers Gallery

Torre David #2, 2011 (Caracas)
Photograph: Iwan Baan/Perry Rubenstein Gallery, LA

Rockefeller Center, New York City, 1932
Photograph: Berenice Abbott/courtesy Ron Kurtz and Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY 

Holden Street, North Adams, Massachusetts, July 13, 1974
Photograph: Stephen Shore/303 Gallery, NY

Clinton Road, London, 1977
Photograph: Thomas Struth

Stahl House, Los Angeles, California, architect Pierre Koenig, 1960
Photograph: Julius Shulman/Getty Research Institute/J Paul Getty Trust

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