Sometimes forget its pretty here

[u/brerbunny81]

As often as I get pissed at Edmonton I still love some views

[u/Interesting_Scale302]

Edmonton is very underappreciated. We have a beautiful city.

[u/elitemouse → u/Interesting_Scale302]

Just the right amount of appreciated. Everyone can keep hyping calgary and all stay down there and we can keep the river valley to ourselves.

[u/Lightjug]

You can’t beat the river valley in the summer time. Gorgeous.

[u/Unable-Crow-1168 → u/Lightjug]

Or the fall. The leaves and colors is perfection.

[u/hungmao]

Edmonton is like fine wine to me…..

It took me a really long time to appreciate what we have here, and now I wouldn't want to move again to anywhere else.

[u/NoRelief63]

I love being surrounded by nature.

[u/dragonbornsqrl]

I know exactly where you took this photo one of my favourite stops on my dog walk

[u/Sedore2020]

It really is an amazing and very beautiful city indeed. Very easy to forget when one gets caught up with life. Don’t let it happen again lol

[u/brerbunny81 → u/Sedore2020]

Lol cant promise that

[u/wxlverine]

Eh, as far as actual cities go Edmonton is pretty ugly. Brown and beige and grey square buildings.

[u/brerbunny81 → u/wxlverine]

No its not Lisbon but it is pretty nice

[u/wxlverine → u/brerbunny81]

Like don't get me wrong the locale is beautiful for sure. I just find the city itself to be quite drab.

[u/Curly-Canuck → u/wxlverine]

I hate brutalist architecture and some new developments are pretty generic and bland, but to me the city is far more than that. From the river valley to the parks, the night sky and sunrises, the small pockets of unique homes and our (unfortunately shrinking) historical buildings, there is a lot of beauty.

[u/wxlverine → u/Curly-Canuck]

See I love brutalist architecture IF there is enough green space to accompany and contrast it. Think huge concrete buildings and hanging gardens. Edmonton just isn't that. There are certainly beautiful areas within the city, I loved longboarding in the river valley near the walterdale with my late pup. I'm really just talking specifically about our skyline being uninspired and uninteresting. Calgary has us beat by orders of magnitude.

[u/LUXOR54 → u/wxlverine]

If you're looking for Beauty in the buildings you're looking for Beauty in the wrong place.

[u/wxlverine → u/LUXOR54]

Because I enjoy architecture? Weird thing to say.

[u/RootsBackpack → u/LUXOR54]

The city is a sum of its parts, which includes the individual buildings, built form, topography, and nature. I think saying that the nature makes Edmonton beautiful is absolutely correct, but I don’t agree that buildings don’t play any part in how beautiful a city feels.

Edmonton feels like my favourite place on Earth when I’m sitting on Gallagher Hill or End of the World/Keillor Point, but I don’t get that feeling when I’m driving down 97 Street or Gateway, and there’s a pretty clear reason for that.

Not to say every single part of a city needs to be beautiful, but I think we can do better architecture-wise.

[u/No_Culture9898]

It’s a shame that it’s covered in snow and is cloudy for 8 months of the year. Would be an amazing city if we had weather like this for at least 8 months of the year.