55 Free Very Useful City Background Designs to Download
City background graphics are useful for urban-themed designs such as in advertisements and event posters. Thus, this type of vector graphics depicting city background, skylines and cityscapes have many uses for designers. Also, using city background and skylines can also inject a modern or futuristic feel to any design.
So, in case you need some city background designs in your projects (Or, even if you don’t), here are 55 sets of vector city background designs featuring city landscapes and skylines of cities around the world. In addition, buildings, architectural structures and famous landmarks are also incorporated in this roundup. These vector city background graphics are either in full color while some are in silhouette effect. And, since these are editable vector files, you can easily extract elements from each template and create your own composition. These graphics are also high-quality. Thus, you can resize them without losing the details of the artwork.
The skyline of high-rise and low-rise buildings never fail to fascinate people. It has been said that two no two skylines are the same. Thus, images of city background skylines serve as a fingerprint of a city. This is the reason why we always see skylines of a particular city in movies, in TV footage of sports events and even in newscasts.
On the other hand, if you are looking only for building clip art and skyline silhouettes in vector format, then this post might be more useful to you: 250+ Building Clip Art Vectors
USEFUL CITY BACKGROUND GRAPHICS TO DOWNLOAD
To get the city background vector template that you want, simply click on the title of each entry (in blue text) and it will take you to the source page where you can get it and view more information about a specific free vector.
City nights Skyline
Nobody would want to miss the view of the stunning skylines during the night, which is a spectacular sight of the city landscape. Don’t we love it all? The lights, blinking, and strobes, of the building across the sky.Great for city-based designs and projects. This illustration is under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
City Illustration
Free graphics of abstract city design with skyscraper towers, office buildings, and hotels. The background features bubbles, stripes, lines, etc.
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Modern City Vector Art
This illustration of a modern skyline is perfect for architecture-related backgrounds such as for business buildings, city landscape graphics, downtown district design themes, skyscraper city scenes, metropolis illustrations, among many other things.
Free City Vectors
There are 11 free skyscraper vectors in this pack featuring modern and futuristic city illustrations. These designs may be useful in making architecture wallpapers, business buildings graphics, city landscape clip art, downtown construction, etc.
Green City Art
A green city scenery in a pop/vector art style. This illustration is under the Attribution Creative Commons 3.0 license.
City Street Vector Art with Vintage Cars
Free illustration showing the flow of busy city life with vintage luxury cars, office buildings, street lights, a bridge and skyline. Scale to any size. The vector elements are all complete and can easily be used separately in your graphic artworks.
Fall In The City Vector
An illustration of a city landscape with autumn elements and decorations. The graphics include colorful hills with curved lines, splatter decorative elements, swirly lines, tree silhouettes, and many simplified buildings.
Urban Building Graphics
A free stock clip art or illustration of an urban landscape with an office building, city setting and stars graphics on a radiant pop art background.
City Nightlife
Illustrated skyline of a modern city at night. This graphic features colored lights with the moon and the stars illuminating the downtown skyscrapers.
Night City Design Vector
Cityscape background with detailed skyscrapers, starry sky, moon and an airplane flying overhead. Semi-realistic graphics that show a peaceful city at night.
City Skyline Vector
Free city skyline background for free download. The artwork is in editable Adobe Illustrator format.
City Vector Urban Landscape
City background in editable drawing format with a great urban style vector and a skyscraper theme.
Urban Building Vector Design
Free city landscape graphics in threshold style sitting in front of an orange and yellow sunburst background. Floral elements and road signs add color and impact to the urban-themed graphics.
Petronas Twin Towers Illustration
Silhouette of Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Twin Towers skyscrapers on green city background, including pop art scrolls and shapes. Perfect graphics to use in your skyscraper, office building, architecture, urban scene, modern city artworks.
Free Abstract Stock Vector
An urban grunge illustration featuring abstract design with a box for text so it can be customized easily.
City on the river side with a bridge
A beautiful illustration of a city on the river side with a bridge.
city high-rise buildings
Silhouette of a city with high-rise buildings with a reflection on the water. The sunset and the orange background creates a dramatic effect.
Boulevard Vector
Free urban background illustration file with avenue boulevard and road graphics. The design comes with street lights, office and apartment buildings, hotels, etc.
Sunset City Vector
City illustration composition with high-rise buildings, skyscrapers, office towers, hotels and circle shaped convention center, etc.
City Background Vector
A city landscape with tall buildings on silhouette against an abstract green and gray background.
Sunrise City Background
City Abstract Glowing Vector Graphic
An abstract vector template featuring glowing lights and modern buildings on a silhouette at night.
Cityscape with Abstract Swirls Background
A great city landscape free graphics in Adobe Illustrator file.
Business World
An abstract illustration featuring silhouettes of men and women in business suits against an urban backdrop.
Urban Heartbeat
A template featuring buildings with reflections and heartbeat in editable EPS format.
City Square Landscape
A city landscape background including a man riding a bike, a square seat, a globe, streetlights, street lamp, and city landscape. Under creative commons attribution 3.0.
Ryugyong Hotel Tower
A city skyline illustration of Pyongyang with the famous Ryugyong Hotel tower.
Vector Club Poster with Skyline Background
Free Pop Art Background Vector
This background design was created as a pop art style. This is not a real art but a pop-art background. This vector graphic features skylines, a statue of liberty, palm trees and graphic decor elements. Free for commercial use.
City Design with Swirls
Colorful abstract city landscape with various decorations such as buildings in neutral colors, various architecture styles, skyscrapers and silhouettes of smaller buildings. Splashes of paint and grunge stars in front of the buildings and many colorful designs in the sky: stars, swirling lines, dot, and stars are likewise included.
Free Vector Modern City With Abstract Background
Party Night Life Vector
Here is a vector about party, fun, freedom and night life. Perfect as a template for making party flyers.
Big City Graphics
Cool city vector skyline silhouette with dynamic star swirls for your modern lifestyle, business, travel, tourism, architecture, construction, and real estate design themes.
City Skyline Vector Graphics
Free city skyline vector with office buildings, hotels, apartments, skyscrapers for your tourism, city trip, travel, real estate, and property design themes.
VECTOR BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES
High-rise Office Buildings
There are 6 vector graphics of high-rise office buildings and structures in this set.
Skyscraper Vector Packs
Highly detailed skyscraper vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator AI, EPS, PDF and SVG format for free download. The vector art collection contains the world’s tallest existing and planned buildings.
Building Shapes
There are 9 vector building shapes included in an EPS file that you may download and use for free in your designs.
Buildings Free Vector
Vector Color Buildings
Blue Vector Buildings
Skyscraper Vector Design
City vector illustrations of office buildings, hotel towers, high rises and skyscrapers to illustrate your tourism, travel, construction and architecture graphics.
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Buildings Sketches
Vector building footage pack featuring sketchy illustrations of different buildings and houses. These hand-drawn visual style and black outlines are suitable for shops, hair salons, garage, cafes, etc.
Landmark Vectors
A vector graphic featuring landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Chrysler Building, Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, clock tower, Burj Al Arab and other great buildings and skyscrapers.
Free Buildings Cut Outs
An architecture vectors pack with landmarks, squares, monuments, palaces, streets, houses, flats, apartments, offices, and skyscrapers.
Free City Skyline Vectors
Here is a city building skyline graphics which include 4 skyscraper city vectors with office towers, hotels, billboards, shopping malls and streets. Since these are in vector art format, you can easily change color and scale the size using your favorite vector program.
Japanese Architecture
Buildings vector illustrations of traditional buildings and sights from Japanese architecture and culture.
City Vectors
This set consists vector city graphics of buildings, skyscrapers, landmarks, office towers, cathedrals, palaces and urban silhouettes in New York City, Berlin, Moscow, Jodhpur, Shanghai, Beijing, and Tokyo.
Famous Buildings Vector
Meanwhile, here is a set of vectors featuring famous landmarks, buildings, and structures. These graphics have sketched effect, which is perfect if you need these elements in your artsy designs.
Vector Heavy Industries
Likewise, this vector city background includes an illustration of an industrial plant. Perfect as an element for designs related to industry, heavy equipment and construction.
Cityscapes Vector
In addition, here is a set of city background graphics you can use as a background for websites, flyers, and brochures. Although, these graphics were intended as business card templates. These vector city background graphics feature silhouettes of modern skylines in beautiful gradient backgrounds.
Shopping in Paris
Meanwhile, here is a beautiful girl doing her shopping with Paris roofs and Eiffel Tower in the background. Created in Adobe Illustrator CS5 back saved to a CS4 version.
Simple vector illustration building
Free Vector Art Graphics
Lastly, here is a large vector collection, free to download and use. Vector graphics pack with active people silhouettes, buildings, urban backgrounds, electronics, computer, keyboard, etc.
