November 24, 2004

Cityscapes

Posted by Kieran

Via Patrick Nielsen Hayden, a cool index of photographs of cities. Of the cities in the index, I’ve lived in Cork, Tucson and Canberra, in that order. I imagine our cosmopolitan CT crowd can do better than that.

The database isn’t without its errors: this claims to be Cork but is in fact Cobh, a town down the road that was the Titanic’s last port of call.

Posted on November 24, 2004 05:49 AM UTC
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Not much more cosmopolitan here (links only for index):

Albuquerque, NM

Santa Rosa, NM

Riverside, CA

Oxford.

Calling next at: London.

Posted by Kikuchiyo · November 24, 2004 08:41 AM

I’m not exactly cosmopolitan, but the database includes all five of my Australian homes (Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney, Townsville, Brisbane) and Washington DC, for a total of six.

Posted by John Quiggin · November 24, 2004 10:35 AM

shit, I miss California. Hm, in my life: Savannah, GA; Bluffton, S.C.; Columbia, S.C., Georgetown/Pawley’s Island, S.C.; Washington, D.C., New York, N.Y., San Francisco, CA; Oakland, CA; Berkeley, CA; Singapore…

Posted by belle waring · November 24, 2004 11:42 AM

For some reason, 4 of the pictures of Melbourne feature the Grollo Tower, which not only does not exist, but was never even likely to.

Posted by Anthony · November 24, 2004 12:17 PM

Fairly cosmopolitan. I’ve lived in Maputo, Bangkok, Oxford, Lyon, London, New York and Sydney.

Posted by Ben · November 24, 2004 12:19 PM

If we are only counting cities (rather than semi-rural crapholes in Central Scotland) then I’ve lived in:

Glasgow
Oxford
Prague [sort of - spent several months a year there for a few years]

No pictues of Prague in the database but http://www.praguewebcam.com/praguewebcam/ is nice….

Posted by Matt McGrattan · November 24, 2004 01:26 PM

I claim the title of Least Cosmopolitan Crooked Timber reader, since a google image search of my home town leads only to this.

Posted by arthur · November 24, 2004 02:24 PM

Manhattan; Bangor, Maine; Baldwin, NY (unincorporated area on Long Island; home of Joey Buttafuoco’s auto body shop AND Amy Fisher’s escort service); New Haven, CT; Boston/Cambridge/Somerville.

Posted by Katherine · November 24, 2004 03:49 PM

I dare you all who haven’t actually been there (or sigh, were there on one of our 363 yearly badly overcast days) to check out the pictures of Pittsburgh.

I guarentee you will be stunned.

And then remember our Republican surburbanites not only have no idea why anybody would want to go “dahntahn” but actually want it to die, die, die. At least after they suction off enough money (state, federal) from the urban cores to build all the shopping malls of their dreams.

Posted by a different chris · November 24, 2004 06:10 PM

Thanks for blogging me and visiting the site! I’ve corrected the erroneous Cork/Cobh image on the new server (see main page) and am in the midst of a massive upload of more photos right now. Croatia, Cuba, Czech. (Prague) is now restored. Re: Grollo Tower in Melbourne, it was cool and was big news on the skyscraper pages of the day. Many old junk photos will be deleted as I find time to do it.

Cheers!
Sean, webmaster @ worldcityphotos.org

Posted by Sean Breazeal · November 26, 2004 11:52 AM
Followups

→ Fall Tour Cityscapes.
Excerpt: Inspired by Kieran's Crooked Timber entry on photographs of cities, I found photographs of all the cities on my "fall tour" (including my home town): Atlanta, Roanoake, Raleigh, and New York. I'll also be in Philadelphia for MLA. Of all...Read more at the chutry experiment
→ Fall Tour Cityscapes.
Excerpt: Inspired by Kieran's Crooked Timber entry on photographs of cities, I found photographs of all the cities on my "fall tour" (including my home town): Atlanta, Roanoake, Raleigh, and New York. I'll also be in Philadelphia for MLA. Of all...Read more at the chutry experiment

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