Abstract. In a visibility representation (VR for short) of a plane graph G, each vertex of G is represented by a horizontal line segment such that the line segments representing any two adjacent vertices of G are joined by a vertical line segment. Rosenstiehl and Tarjan [6], Tamassia and Tollis [7] independently gave linear time VR algorithms for 2-connected plane graph. Afterwards, one of the main concerns for VR is the size of VR. In this paper, we prove that any plane graph G has a VR with height bounded by . This improves the previously known bound . We also construct a plane graph G with n vertices where any VR of G require a size of (