A couple of additional clues:
Despite the flags looking slightly like a shahada in the pic above, they are green irl. The team they are associated with is not particularly good but arguably punches above its weight.
The time zone is closer to Tokyo than to Moscow.
It's currently minus 16 and minus 27 with windchill.
https://s27.postimg.org/c9x93jk0z/20161210_112027.jpg
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 10 December 2016 07:20 (seven years ago) link
Harbin? Or did we do that one recently?
― walk back to the halftime long, billy lynn, billy lynn (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 10 December 2016 12:42 (seven years ago) link
It's not Harbin.
Tim was on the right track with the former Soviet Union.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 10 December 2016 12:44 (seven years ago) link
Novosibirsk?
― rob, Saturday, 10 December 2016 15:07 (seven years ago) link
Very close!
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 10 December 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
Vladivostok
― Treeship, Saturday, 10 December 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
Getting further away.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 10 December 2016 15:20 (seven years ago) link
Tomsk?
― rob, Saturday, 10 December 2016 15:38 (seven years ago) link
It's Tomsk! Jewel of Siberia!
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 10 December 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
somebody do bishkek next, bishkek looks awesome
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 December 2016 15:42 (seven years ago) link
how is siberia in winter
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 December 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link
It's pretty cold, tbh.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 10 December 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link
Will drop below minus 40 next week but i will be back by then.
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 10 December 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link
btw there are some Russian and Central Asian cities with beautiful stadiums
― rob, Saturday, 10 December 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link
ive seen -40 in vermont (the temperature where fahrenheit and celsius converge!)
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 December 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/5GYW9fq.jpg
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 December 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link
I actually went to the trouble of finding one that won't give you the answer via Google Images
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 December 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
nice photo
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 December 2016 16:22 (seven years ago) link
Norilsk?
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 10 December 2016 16:22 (seven years ago) link
Gary, Indiana
― rob, Saturday, 10 December 2016 17:06 (seven years ago) link
hell
― clouds, Saturday, 10 December 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link
Ulaanbaatar?
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Sunday, 11 December 2016 09:14 (seven years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 11 December 2016 15:54 (seven years ago) link
shape of roofs suggests asia
― clouds, Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
Is it Bishkek, by any chance?
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
found this from google image searching bishkek, more points in its favor http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LqvbnxgVU8Q/VCPcBuiQYSI/AAAAAAAABqw/6UMJlbhBnIs/s1600/20140921-_DSF8229.jpg
― ciderpress, Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:37 (seven years ago) link
i don't see that bar and grill in tombot's image, though
― Treeship, Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
same chimneys?
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/c6/10/4a/c6104ab003c972a37f31d86bc8c4de74.jpg
― ogmor, Sunday, 11 December 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
yup
http://www.imgrum.net/media/1402256408170384059_2943656252
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 11 December 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
turned up this rad looking block of flats in my search which I think is in bishkek https://svbtleusercontent.com/pdlmxlpdphejlw.jpg
― ogmor, Sunday, 11 December 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
whoa dude that is amazing
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 11 December 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54e21523e4b0cc0f086836a9/t/54e254d4e4b00f1b031d6884/1424118998141/6cc46a07.jpeg?format=500w
this is a serious question because i am writing an article that requires i know where this is
― Treeship, Monday, 12 December 2016 00:13 (seven years ago) link
gondolas suggest venice but idk the name of the structure
My guess: tinted B&W photo of a Beaux-Arts/''City Beautiful'' environment ginned up for one of the great exhibitions/worlds' fairs. Could even be Chicago 1893.
― walk back to the halftime long, billy lynn, billy lynn (Doctor Casino), Monday, 12 December 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link
yeah Chicago 1893 had gondolas
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Monday, 12 December 2016 00:22 (seven years ago) link
Too much open space for Venice.
― nickn, Monday, 12 December 2016 00:46 (seven years ago) link
St Louis worlds fair
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3507/3290123283_e50a51b87e_z.jpg
― El Tomboto, Monday, 12 December 2016 01:10 (seven years ago) link
Another one
http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/webprojects/LiveMiss/stlouis/graphics/wordfair.jpg
Doctor Casino gets 98% of the credit here though for sure
― El Tomboto, Monday, 12 December 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
:)
― Treeship, Monday, 12 December 2016 01:21 (seven years ago) link
The Guardian has a variation today - guess the city from a stripped down aerial map highlighting rivers etc. I feel this will be trivial compared the standard of play in this thread.... https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/dec/13/water-features-id-city-rivers-harbours-quiz
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 10:50 (seven years ago) link
i only got 6/11 but tbh the rivers were less of a help than the street plans
(spoiler alert the north american cities and brasilia were p obvious because of this)
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
10/11, but multiple choice was criiiiitical
― walk back to the halftime long, billy lynn, billy lynn (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
I got the same for the same reason.
I was thinking that a spin-off thread of speculative city plans that were never built or ambitious development ideas currently in the works but not yet existing, and guessing where they were / are meant to be, would be interesting - but i would probably be terrible at it.
This one is real:
https://s23.postimg.org/gyrlyzenv/rome.jpg
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
^ China's Phoenix Island, which is not doing great
― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 05:24 (seven years ago) link
Correct!
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 05:43 (seven years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/IMG_20161213_1326102_zpsusrcfwh9.jpg
I came back home from here yesterday.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
tallinn
― clouds, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link
Nah.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:02 (seven years ago) link
some steps
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 22:04 (seven years ago) link
creepystatueville
― clouds, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link