HAIFA, Israel — Jeremy Tyler came to this scenic city overlooking the Mediterranean as a trailblazer.
When the torchbearer carries the Olympic flame across the Tay Road Bridge, from Fife into Dundee, they'll enjoy one of the most scenic city outlooks in Britain.
It's no accident, for example, that San Francisco — where blocking someone's view of the Golden Gate Bridge would have a high cost — would develop stricter zoning laws than a less scenic city.
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan — The sprawling compound where Osama bin Laden sheltered before his death stood out in its middle-class neighborhood on the edges of this scenic city, home to a large Pakistani military base and a military academy.
The changes won in this scenic city filled with colonial churches some 70 miles southeast of Mexico City, a center of the textile industry since the 1930's, have also provided help for Mexico's fledgling independent labor movement.
HANGZHOU, China — Until the early 1990s, crews on barges and boats chugging down China's 2,400-year-old Grand Canal did not need familiar landmarks to tell them they were approaching the scenic city of Hangzhou.
Liège has a picturesque central area with nightlife in the narrow cobblestone streets, and Brussels, the capital of Belgium, is a scenic city with many tourist attractions, like the Grand Place with its Gothic facades, the Royal Palace and many museums, including the Musical Instrument Museum, the Éditions Jacques Brel exhibition, the Textiles Museum and the Beer Museum.
Right on the scenic city park in the center of Zwiesel and overlooking the whispering Regen river, Domicil am Stadtpark (Dr.-Schott-Strasse 10a; 49-9922-609430; domicil-am-stadtpark.de) has double rooms starting at 70 euros, as well as self-catering apartments.
A disparate coalition that includes the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (the agency that polices the horse-and-carriage industry), the pop singer Pink, and City Councilman Tony Avella, a Queens Democrat and mayoral candidate, wants the industry, a scenic city fixture for 136 years, banned.
