Guess the City

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/06/china-flatten-mountain-lanzhou-new-area

I was reading it back when in context of a writing project I was working on about terraforming.

lol holy shit https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/21/china-west-ghost-city-comes-to-life-lanzhou-new-area

I’ve been busy y’all, I have one for you but won’t get to posting and etc until tomorrow (saturday in the states).

https://i.ibb.co/7RZjPjH/fa.png

Tuesday

Great one again! I'd guess this is on a medium sized lake - nothing to protect against tides. But where? I wanna say it feels like North America/Canada maybe?

I want to say Panama City purely because it looks like the same view as that John Darwin photo.

(Which it isn't now I look at it but I've typed the first bit already.)

definitely a deciduous zone. is that a mall left front?

somehow this doesn't feel like north america to me, too many apartment blocks

oops sorry I forgot, I have one for next tho

(not getting anywhere yet - there are a lot of nice cities on lakes all over the world though)

Not as many churches as I would expect in a densely built area for a Western country. I see one steepled building but it's pretty small.

why has that building on the left for a massive tower on it? it's not a crane because they aren't building. aerial?

for = got

good question - other buildings nearby are higher and would be better locations for aerials

construction is going on in the bottom panel of the second window though, maybe these locations are linked

https://i.ibb.co/nPjkqX5/o.png

v2

what a peculiar (tower/gate/?) in the bottom right corner

is that a bridge? looks like there's water just next to it

That tower has a South or SE Asian vibe to me.

looks like cyrillic(??) script on the biggest building front center

lots of medium size blocky apartment buildings makes me think eastern europe

how many km across does that lake/river look?

not having any luck with eastern europe cities on a wide river or lake, where else looks like that?

New Rochelle???

oh lol so it is

new york is basically eastern europe, in my defense

There's very clearly a city of some size in the distance— those aren't mountains.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Skyline+New+Rochelle/@40.9092634,-73.7834316,3a,75y,338.43h,89.18t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAF1QipNvOZ1LzvIXz8VR6Tj5IFTC0cnqZbhu3QTTR5rL!2e10!7i10000!8i5000!4m16!1m8!3m7!1s0x89c28d90158d0b07:0x79eb47841eef0845!2sTrump+Plaza+New+Rochelle!8m2!3d40.912705!4d-73.781655!14m1!1BCgIgARICCAI!3m6!1s0x0:0xcd8b21d0ddc2be66!8m2!3d40.9092209!4d-73.7833925!14m1!1BCgIgARICCAI

and

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Skyline+New+Rochelle/@40.9091901,-73.7833408,3a,90y,78.21h,90.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAF1QipO1S10T-KUw-sr3F3vEVccsz6OGXeRTRpnn6EoN!2e10!7i10000!8i5000!4m16!1m8!3m7!1s0x89c28d90158d0b07:0x79eb47841eef0845!2sTrump+Plaza+New+Rochelle!8m2!3d40.912705!4d-73.781655!14m1!1BCgIgARICCAI!3m6!1s0x0:0xcd8b21d0ddc2be66!8m2!3d40.9092209!4d-73.7833925!14m1!1BCgIgARICCAI

kudos, loaded

what the...? wow

yeah i completely missed the horizon line having city buildings in the 2nd photo

ok, the difference between high and low tides there is only 8 ft (2,4 m), not much needed re: dams/dykes etc

all of my assumptions were wrong based on that alone - I r dum.

New Rochelle it is, interesting what people do and don't notice in a view!

Okay, my turn

Weekend vibe

https://ia902504.us.archive.org/12/items/img1_20220701_202207/img1.jpg

if that isn't Africa I'm eating my hat (and I don't even have one)

I wouldn't rule out the Caribbean but (sub-Saharan?) Africa seems like a good place to start

Could even be Guyana.

I'm gonna have to buy a hat, aren't I

I consider Guyana to be part of the Caribbean but yeah it needn't be an island

That said, I have no idea where to start with this...Kenya? Mauritius?

I see where you're going with some of those, but for now at least I'm sticking with East-Central Africa (though not with much conviction)

I'm pretty confident it's Africa though - look at this in South Africa (it's not the location of the pic but)

https://www.google.be/maps/@-28.3142147,30.1012592,3a,75y,196.86h,95.59t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sth29-XOT6pZbs66bISMVKw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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yeah Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tanzania, all seem possible to me too. I briefly looked at Madagascar for a minute

Kampala does not look un-promising

Mbabane, Eswatini? buildings and terrain look very similar but i have no real landmarks to confirm with

Kampala was making a compelling case, but that type of gate doesn't seem to exist there.

let me know if you want another photo.

I would say yes to that personally

I wouldn't say no either - we're not *really* getting anywhere right now imho