A renewal of the notion of urban landscape is to observe during the 1960s and 1970s. This notion is detectable and (re)constructed in the writings of French urban geographers. These writings define urban landscape in comparison with the notion of rural landscape and other landscapes. Its contemporary originality depends on new architectures, standardization, rapidity of its creation and its unfinished appearance. Besides the urban materiality, the urban landscape is characterized by an atmosphere linked to the city traffics and their consequences. It is based on a representation articulating spaces of daily life, spaces of tourism, and spaces of "visits". Geographers identify recurrent elements of urban landscapes, and they think of the differentiation or not between time-spaces. These writings represent urban landscapes through description, highlighting the existing relationships between the whole and the parts, as well as the different types to be distinguished according to urban organizations, such as centre and periphery relationships, partition of urban space, mobility and temporality of cities.
