Guess the City

#1. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3290/2938231460_393d9fd250.jpg

Some midwest shithole?

yeah i was gonna guess somewhere in michigan

or maybe it's toledo?

Kiev?

i cant even tell what country that is. the pointy orange thing and two church steeples make me think europe somewhere but that bridge and some of those apartment buildings seem america? wait. is that an amusement park?

god it looks horrible. bad shot maybe?

hmm, yeah that looks like some sort of fun fair doesn't it

is someone gonna tell the answer?

if in the US, Pittsburgh?

i don't think it's the US

no wait, I do - all that low-rise construction/sprawl?

hint: heres the city from a slightly different angle!

http://i38.tinypic.com/28s6jhj.jpg

helpful clue

ya none of that anywhere else in the world

looks eastern european to me. i'll say warsaw.

oh lol jho :D

minsk

actually we could do this much more easily by working out which eastern european country's dictator-controlled national media outlets have orange as their signature colour

Some bored googling of "cantilever bridge" and "amusement park" has given me the answer, you are all way off.

doubt it's in the midwest, since there's appears to be a hill off to the right.

Actually, I think I'm wrong. Never mind.

ah got it,

(by doing the ailsa thing)

I googled "green cantilever bridge" and then got bored of this approach after one fruitless page

No, I was right after all. Hurrah! Shall let the rest of you guess away though. Am assuming Ste got the same result as me. Not Europe.

is that the pole from one of those rotating observation "rides" there? Are those specific to Six Flags?

birmingham, al?

google is for cheaters

canada?

Pretty sure you are

#2 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/38531341_eeef3142ac.jpg?v=0

ok montreal alisa wins next city

istanbul?

oh boooooring xp to lol canada

my error was to GIS rather than GS

ankara

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Vampire_laronde.jpg/350px-Vampire_laronde.jpg

I like how I win by not actually saying "Montreal" at any point :-)

Baghdad?

actually i found it with fewer google words "bridge amusement park" do i win even more than ailsa?

Also, is not cheating, is educational and enterprising and stuff. Honest.

Granny Dainger's is Montreal

lol

haaaaaaaa

Ed - Lahore, right?

^win

#3. http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles18126.jpg

THATS MONTREAL???

many xps obv

http://www.staronetickets.com/images/Montreal.jpg

google search: trees i don't what kind + smallish river + rolling hills + bland low buildings

haha, yeah, that's spoiled my research fun.

#3 url gives it away though

#3 is not very easy for Europeans

It looks like there is a table tennis table but there are quite a few of those around (https://pingpongmap.net a subset of them here but after a cursory glance I could t see a good candidate).

it almost has to be Wimbledon since the tennis is on, innit - but I still can't find it :-)

https://i.ibb.co/rGf4m7w/www.jpg

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It's crazy to me, the interchangeability of any town-/cityscape in England. You could show me any picture of any High Street and I wouldn't be able to tell you if it was Bristol vs. Leeds or whatever

London. It's gotta be London, right? London's a city. I'm saying London.

damn. well done.

as per others honestly feel like i've been to all these locations. where? no idea. part of me wondered... oxford? but ledge's guess feels best.

https://i.ibb.co/XtY9n7D/oi.png

A view from above

It's pretty big wherever it is, with lots of council housing or apartment blocks in any case which makes me think maybe war damage - somewhere in south London?

My first thought was "how was this taken". I'm out of touch, but it looks too clean to have been taken with a drone, and in any case drones are stabilised, so it probably wouldn't be tilted. 2434x1164 isn't a standard resolution so it's not straight-from-the-camera. Is this the right-hand-side of a very wide, two-page panorama?

Did the photographer use a helicopter? It's a short exposure, but it looks too steady for that. So perhaps it was taken with an SLR from the viewing platform of a tall building. But it looks too low for The Shard, and that's not the view from The Shard. Or Horizon 22. It looks Southwark-esque, but that church isn't familiar.

Are there other cities in the UK with tall buildings? I don't know, I've never been anywhere else.

I will be amazed if this isn’t London but I can’t see any point blocks, and it’s really hard to see anything much by way of hills. Between those two things it’s it’s really hard to place

The gothic church dimly visible front and left has a surprisingly unusual combo of hipped tower above a story of three lancet windows. Hasn’t helped me feel fire out where it is though

https://i.ibb.co/HHgHrwx/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-09-47-22.png

A view from the ground

What are we even guessing now? A postcode? It's been nearly a month!

Those two point blocks look very much like the ones in the Hurst Street Estate, just over Dulwich Road from Brockwell Park.

And the church you can dimly see in the night time shot is the Holy Trinity on Trinity Rise, other side of Brockwell Park. I think the initial shots are on Tulsa Hill itself, with Cressingham Gardens on one side (the forthcoming loss of Cressingham Gardens will be an unforgivable act of philistinism IMO, but that's for another thread).

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4452602,-0.1097851,3a,75y,252.6h,115.86t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2pMDW0_2s9onEJ3Y9JlVdw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu

Oops. I mean: https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4465865,-0.1127594,3a,90y,4.33h,82.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAvbPL1eXf3gsJwSHJLZ-fA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu

ding ding ding!

Think the lesson here is that old South London suburbs are all much of a muchness

That's fair, but they are distinctively themselves too - this one felt like South London from the off (I live a couple of miles from this spot btw, but that doesn't make me the closest to this spot on this thread, even).

(This also felt like inner burbs from the start, I didn't think it would be any further out than (say) Catford, and no further in than Camberwell.)

Knew from the first pic exactly where it was as the nearby link to Brockwell Park was part of my bike commute a couple of years ago (I've modified this since as I pretty much gave up on being able to enjoy cycling through the park in commuter mode heh).

Too many pedestrians?

Pretty much! Also had a bad experience with a bike-hating dog (who wasn't on a lead) in there. Still London's best park tho imo.

Cressingham Gardens it is! Quite a difficult one to pick for, felt it might be too easy and too difficult at same time

i got distracted with all the Wimbledon talk

This does raise the question of where the OP's photograph comes from. The detail in the top-left is fascinating. It looks like part of a graphic element, or some kind of border - like how old film negatives used to have a border - but it's too regular to be analogue.

Tim at 11:39 29 Jul 24

(This also felt like inner burbs from the start, I didn't think it would be any further out than (say) Catford, and no further in than Camberwell.)

oh lol i uh... should have got this let's say, though that nighttime elevated pic is still a total mystery to me... must be looking south in tulse hill direction but avoiding radio masts, which would have given it away. pic 2 still a bit of a mystery as well actually.

this pic 2 ?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Urd2RKcdiGmKJTHG8

yes! thanks Stan! I mean I've walked down there. Not a lot, but, y'know, more than once. Embarrassing.

that nighttime elevated pic is still a total mystery to me... must be looking south in tulse hill direction but avoiding radio masts, which would have given it away. pic 2 still a bit of a mystery as well actually.

― Fizzles

I think it's looking roughly South-west and the town centre-ish set of lights you can see in the middle distance is probably Streatham.

...middle distance on the left, I mean

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4464383,-0.1090972,3a,75y,119.06h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipORbn7ai6nVC59U-yRz9vfMQGXoPHzlgC9BRIZp!2e10!3e11!7i8192!8i4096?coh=205410&entry=ttu

360 of the nighttime elevation

So that answers it. It's a screengrab of a Google photosphere. The things in the top-left corner are the Google search box and the title card.

Images like this really remind me of why I dislike the environmental movement. We evolved away from living in trees, and now it is our destiny to burn the boats and forge a new world. Our future will be neon lights at night, as in Blade Runner. I remember being entranced by that film as a child. Living in the countryside I was struck by the contrast between the neon beauty of Blade Runner and the awful reality of mud and rotten sheep corpses. That and Lessons of Darkness. Gouts of flame, not trees.

Triangles and squares, not circles. We will learn to live without trees. We must teach ourselves to hate them.

The complete opposite of 'tears in the rain', there.

I mean turn 180 on that photosphere and the big dark expanse is, as mentioned above, one of London's largest most attractive multi-use parks but lol go off my replidude :)

this is the Cité Moderne, a neighborhood built in 1922-1925, by architect Victor Bourgeois: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Bourgeois

― StanM, Thursday, 14 July 2022 11:30 (two years ago)

I had a quick wander around the Cité Moderne yesterday. It obviously has the bones of a beautiful modernist estate but it's in a dreadful condition - lots of boarded up homes, render in a poor state pretty much all over. Stan, do you have any insight into what's happening with it? It's heartbreaking.

Renovation plans are finally starting to see the light - https://bma.brussels/en/cite-moderne/

Plus also, Sint-Agatha-Berchem bought a vacant lot to build a new community center, hoping it will help revive the neighbourhood. (The vacant lot was first going to house a 5-story building but inhabitants protested and the independent promotor who had those plans left & it's from him the community bought the land last year)

that community center news is only in Dutch here: https://www.bruzz.be/stedenbouw/sint-agatha-berchem-plant-nieuw-gemeenschapscentrum-cite-moderne-gamechanger-2023-08-24

Thanks - that’s reassuring.

Pretty easy so far but I'm not complaining

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the photo at the top of this article is bristol or something, isn't it?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/upshot/parents-stress-murthy-warning.html

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/09/06/multimedia/up-parenting-3-gzbl/up-parenting-3-gzbl-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp

In the United States, parenthood is often solitary, and parents are much more likely than nonparents to say they feel lonely and stressed.

That looks northern to me

https://www.shutterstock.com/nl/editorial/image-editorial/person-walks-past-gas-holder-huddersfield-britain-13742613c

is this it? I'm not allowed to see it myself (region locked)

Yes, it's in that set.

oh, it's a set - nevermind then

https://i.ibb.co/K91jz4w/Screenshot-2024-12-21-at-12-41-12.png

For reference

ooh well done

and the link on streetview (Lockwood, Huddersfield)

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.6392274,-1.7962379,3a,30y,135.79h,89.63t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sRZcyUIxDcvvesxJ1mmHbZA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D0.37464517389585694%26panoid%3DRZcyUIxDcvvesxJ1mmHbZA%26yaw%3D135.78813885801253!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D