What Color is your City?

I found thecolorof.com this evening (via Curiosity Counts), which layers recent images from Flickr sharing a common tag over each other to create swatches that resemble abstract impressionist paintings. Naturally, I spent a bit of time trying out various cities. Many wind up very similar--red/gold on the bottom, bluish on the top--which I'm guessing has something to do with the preponderance of skyline photos. But the results for some are spot-on, and even downright gorgeous. A few favorites:

What color is your city?

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Urbanffffinds will be a new weekly feature, starting today. Each weekend Where will feature a roundup of the coolest urban, architectural, and cartographic images discovered on the amazing (still in private beta) new collaborative image repository, FFFFOUND. The images will appear unedited (unlike the usual b&w thumbnails) and will be directly linked to FFFFOUND. Bon appetite, photogrubbers!

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