Isn't Every City Prettier in the Fall?
Fall is a great time to be a city dweller. These photos, which can otherwise speak for themselves, remind us why. Only three are mine; most have been curated from wonderful photographers who have graciously licensed their work for noncommercial use via creative commons.
Tokyo. Photo by Marufish/Flickr
Washington, D.C. Photo by Kaid Benfield
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Photo courtesy of NCBrian/Flickr
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Photo courtesy of abhinay omkar/Flickr
Toronto. Photo courtesy of Prashanth Raghavan/Flickr
Memphis. Photo courtesy of Lindsay Turner/Flickr (left) Seattle. Photo courtesy of Canopic/Flickr
Chevy Chase, Maryland. Photo by Kaid Benfield
Amman, Jordan. Photo courtesy of Roba al Assi/Flickr
Chicago. Photo by Nate Burgos/Flickr
Santa Fe. Photo courtesy of Michael R. Swiggot/Creative Commons
Paris. Photo by Kaid Benfield
Santiago, Chile. Photo courtesy of Phokrates/Creative Commons
Cape Town. Photo by Warrenski/Flickr
Vienna. Photo courtesy of TravelingTamas/Flickr (left) Dublin. Photo courtesy of Sunafterrain/Flickr
Boise, Idaho. Photo courtesy of Roadsidepictures/Flickr
Winchester, Ontario. Photo by Gemma Gace/Flickr
Beijing. Photo courtesy of pat_ong/Flickr
Los Angeles. Photo by Koopr/Creative Commons
Houston. Photo courtesy of jeffbalke/Flickr
Wamego, Kansas. Photo courtesy of Are You My Rik/Flickr
Top image: Portland, Oregon. Photo courtesy of David Grant/Flickr
This post originally appeared on the NRDC's Switchboard blog.
Kaid Benfield is the director of the Sustainable Communities program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law, co-founder of the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system, and co-founder of Smart Growth America coalition, and author of several books on cities, smart growth and sprawl.
Watch for Kaid’s forthcoming book,
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