Guess the City

Thought I'd found the lamppost style in Frankfurt but wasn't confident enough it was right.

I think the key might be in that bit of a cardboard box to our left of the front door. I can't get a clear enough resolution to see what it is.

I've found inconclusive evidence that that exact kind of streetlight exists in Braga, Portugal.

I've now found definitive evidence, but I've also found this:

https://www.lighting.philips.com.eg/prof/outdoor-luminaires/road-and-urban-lighting/road-and-street/metronomis/metronomis-malmoe/910502140518_EU/product

So highly doubtful Braga is the only place that has them!

excellent sleuthing!

excellent sleuthing!

all credit to yandex - actually google image search found the philips page.

https://i.ibb.co/FVB9s2q/dogs.png

bloop ii

One way street?

The cars look fairly new, and there's a handicapped parking space (I've never seen one designated like that in the US), so maybe southern Europe?

I suspect the orange-backed traffic signs will be the important clue.

Actually strike "southern," I guess it could be northern too.

learning in my search that some european countries don't seem to have handicapped parking spaces at all. i wont name any names

the orange signs appear to be belgian in nature

They do, yes, but the handicapped space with the blue line, the special type of ground floor window, the mandatory rose bush for everyone, I wouldn't immediately know where to place those in Belgium

the TV distribution thing with the cable running to it on every house does feel Belgian again too though

found some similar looking streets in bruges but the houses were too big and nice, think it must be a smaller city if this is in the city and not a suburb

Maybe stating the obvious as a new player, but my hopes of Luxembourg (based on money for fancy new lights) is dashed by the plates on the cars. Netherlands is out too.

i wasn't able to find the orange signs in any neighboring country even right near the belgium border so i think everything else is ruled out

plot twist: cherry blossom is receiving these pics from a hacked phone and we are racing to locate an international arms smuggler

I'm keeping an eye out for people with more than two arms

the houses are too uniform for Belgium IMO. I'm thinking it might be somewhere Nordic or Scandi, so a less pretty part of Odense or Tampere, perhaps.

Definitely think it's Belgium, as I've seen handicapped parking spaces there that are marked liked that (in Brussels?)

https://passelemessage.be/plm-2020/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/poubelle-sur-stationnement-pmr-1024x1000.jpg

residential areas by one and the same architect are a thing in Belgium, all houses looking the same

"sociale woonwijk"

I stand corrected! Well it's a flat bit of Belgium, so that excludes Liege and surrounds, but apart from that I have no idea

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8673753,4.3037469,3a,75y,30.41h,89.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVbkeVRjIjjnm8Wq5ankvkw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Ontwikkelingstraat, Brussels I think.

I actually recognised this one, although I've never been, because I came across pics of a similar street nearby, the rue de la Cite Moderne, in a book about modernist housing estates.

nice work!

wow! great!

I don't think I have the google maps chops (or the time) to find the first pic though.

several blocks look like that in that neighborhood yes

3 Initiatiefplein
https://maps.app.goo.gl/yrkJ3UgJkdtARJ2j9

the milk box says Melk lait, duh

oh, it's the Everyday brand - I don't go to that supermarket though (Colruyt's private label/home brand)

Outstanding!

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

Tim already said that but I didn't know that was the name of the whole neighborhood

ha, the first picture is about 3 clicks away from the second if you click beyond the road barrier that blocks the next road on the left.

the place all looks shabby, like the places near where i live that were built immediately after the war in the cheapest materials and pebbledashed to hide the worst of it

Well done!

It does look like it's in need of some looking after for sure, architecturally pretty nice though, it's been on my list of places I want to go for some years now.

(So much so that I spent my lunch hour identifying modernist churches I might visit on a future trip to Brussels, I can feel a plan coming together nicely)

If you turn left and go down the road a bit it seems that between 2009 and 2013 a new estate was built around the corner, in which appears to be a modern homage to the original style:
https://goo.gl/maps/U1PyfSaqjNngQTY29
https://goo.gl/maps/CfwDUnL9a2DiJaQFA

The top link is 2009, the bottom 2013. It has the same street lights but the buildings have more wood.

https://i.ibb.co/26zZQkg/ar.png

guess

Warrington, UK - looking towards Fiddlers Ferry Power Station (which has 8 towers but is the first google images result if you look for power station "7 towers" :-) )

https://www.google.be/maps/@53.3828828,-2.6086605,3a,75y,12.14h,83.03t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNQQlG1nwnjXj3TE2hbPXnOjvuWuOUGUbeQ9dch!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNQQlG1nwnjXj3TE2hbPXnOjvuWuOUGUbeQ9dch%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya60.99318-ro-0-fo100!7i5734!8i2867

How'd you find it so quick?

I told you: I googled "power station "7 towers" " and the first result looked VERY suspiciously correct + the hills in the distance did too

first result in Images

and then the first aerial picture already looked like it was the right direction

https://www.google.be/maps/@53.3742371,-2.6680439,3a,75y,38.96h,86.71t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPUHszeH6erpADiR2Jk4tSuQ8ISZxIOml_Tjokg!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPUHszeH6erpADiR2Jk4tSuQ8ISZxIOml_Tjokg%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya38.014175-ro-0-fo100!7i8192!8i4096

so we need to be further back + two bridges near each other: and that was it. Lucky :-)

I'd recognise Fiddler's Ferry in a heartbeat, Granadaland icon

Bit too obvious a landmark that one eh? I was going to do it pointing in the opposite direction originally

I only found it via that google search, wasn't familiar with it

I told you: I googled "power station "7 towers" " and the first result looked VERY suspiciously correct + the hills in the distance did too

― StanM

Oops, just skimmed your answer.

oh no, the next one is going to be very hard now, isn't it?