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Old Posted Nov 28, 2013, 11:36 PM
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Fall Into Portland

It was quite the nice autumn in Portland this year, with what felt like above average sunshine and nice temps. I'm amazed I managed to capture any of it based on the fact I'm a third-year architecture student now. This will be the second to last photothread of 2013; the final one will be really quite something special. Until then, enjoy a taste of fall in the City of Roses.
















































































Until next time.
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Old Posted Nov 28, 2013, 11:39 PM
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Gorgeous, gorgeous North American-style city. It's cities like Portland that make me think maybe we didn't completely **** up everything after ditching old European style.
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most excellent.
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Solid set.
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Very nice!
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Old Posted Nov 29, 2013, 6:34 PM
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Amazing colours and shots! What a pretty Fall in Portland! Thanks for sharing your shots.

Good luck with your studies!

Congrats and greetings from Madrid, Spain.
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Simply beautiful!
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Nice photos of a nice city!
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Portland is one of my favorite cities in the U.S.

It doesn't have the intense density that cities like San Francisco and Philadelphia have.. but what it does have is incredible bike infrastructure (by American standards) and well-planned mass transit.

Keep on biking Portland!

Thanks for this thread and your gorgeous photos
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great thread. makes me want to get on a plane and go visit a friend who moved there.

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Many great memories came back to me looking at this set. These are beautiful photographs!
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Beautiful set, love the fall colors.

I usually don't care for PDX skyline shots b/c in the past the downtown has tended to resemble a big suburban office park, but I have to say after seeing this set I'm really impressed with how much the core has densified. There seems to be a lot more mid-rises and the city just looks overall much more mature and vibrant. THank you for sharing.
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This will be the second to last photothread of 2013; the final one will be really quite something special.
After this colorful and beautiful display, certainly something to look forward to.
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Many of those pics were taken in Portland's Goose Hollow neighborhood, which belies the idea that Portland is a kind of yuppie paradise too chi-chi for the urban big leagues. In fact, like so much of Portland, the density in Goose Hollow comes with its own grit - the homeless, the working poor, and some obviously wacked-out personalities. It's not San Francisco by a long shot since the balance favors the middle class (and upper middle) over the downtrodden. But to walk down Burnside is to be aware that this is, for the moment at least, a real city in ways most other American cities have long ceased to be. This is not gentrified monotony. This is how America really looked 50 years ago before urban renewal, white flight, and the the evisceration of authentic streetscapes. Portland may grow more prosperous but I suspect it will always have its urban instincts front and center before our amazed eyes.
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I always look forward to your Portland photo threads. Awesome.
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Nice set. In some ways Portland looks a lot like a Midwestern city (aside from the topography).
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Nice. Autumn is not my favorite time of the year but in these shots it could become.
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Wonderful job.
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The city always has this really capitivating aesthetic to it in pictures, something I can't ever quite put into words. It puts of this kind of we-keep-to-ourselves-and/but-we-know-what-we're-doing isolation vibe, like a little town that grew up in the woods and continues to progress with little mind for what's going on anywhere else.

Great shots.
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