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>>7021047
You don't need a horizon for something like a bunch of -aligned- buildings using linear perspective. A horizon represents an infinite set of vanishing points that share a common infinite plane (the "ground"). Since you want to draw buildings that all share the same vanishing points, you can simply pick one vanishing point for each orthogonal direction. Since the buildings all sit on a common plane, one or two of the vanishing points will directly land on the supposed horizon of the ground (or zero if the ground plane is parallel to the view plane). One or two of the vanishing points may land at an infinite point (represented by a line instead of a point).

In this picture, you could guess that point X lies on the common plane (and common horizon, H) of the scene. You could also guess that point Y lies on the common plane and eventually meets the horizon as well. Since point Y is different for each building, and seemingly infinite for each guess, this makes the angle of horizon H somewhat uncertain, but most likely close to parallel to the lines that converge to point Y. Both points Z and X vary between buildings, also making estimation of horizon H somewhat uncertain.

For the most part, regardless of the horizon, the orthogonal points for the buildings all seem to be roughly in the same direction. However, maybe the points are fudged because he free-handed it (most likely explanation), or maybe they are purposely different to give the illusion of a wider scene, like curvilinear/fisheye perspective, but using straight lines like linear perspective (Studio Ghibli is known to do this). The unlikely explanation for this particular picture is that the buildings have different rotations that set them off of the common ground plane (which would be an alternative explanation for the variations of points X, Y and Z, if one were to assume that the buildings were supposed to be rigidly aligned while adhering to linear perspective).