Coleman McCormick

Archive of posts with tag 'Cities'

January 30, 2024 • #

Lucerne’sKappelbrücke (Chapel Bridge) was built in 1360.

I got to walk across when I visited in 2014. Switzerland is like a 2-sided time warp: part medieval village, part urban futurescape.

January 29, 2024 • #

Centuripe — a Sicilian town that looks like a person.

Browsing maps is my favorite way into new rabbit holes. Now central Sicily is on the travel wishlist.

January 24, 2024 • #

The barren highways of Naypyidaw.

Don’t listen to the high modernists. You can’t will cities into existence.

Weekend Reading: Exploring Zanzibar, Singapore of the Future, & Watching Basketball

December 1, 2018 • #

🇹🇿 Exploring Zanzibar with Mapillary

A fun travel post from the Mapillary team after FOSS4G in Dar es Salaam. A drive around Zanzibar collecting images for OpenStreetMap mapping. Also check out part 2 of the journey.

🇸🇬 City of the Future: Singapore

Singapore is an interesting experiment: a benevolent authoritarian government, small population, and limited geography to leverage and nurture. This documentary is a bit of a commercial for their plans for the future. Still some fun ideas that (if successful) other megacities could use to maintain quality of life with population growth.

🏀 How to Watch Basketball

This was a great explainer. I’ve only been seriously watching basketball a couple of years, and I was starting to figure out some of these techniques myself. It’s interesting to see how coaches and professional analysts approach watching a game.