The architecture strikes me as foreign, but all the Jeeps would suggest otherwise (as well as knowing who the likely photographer is and where he likely shot it). It's kind of an odd juxtaposition in that it looks like a place where you'd expect activity, but there is none, and it being residential also wouldn't automatically mean activity. Probably it's that the buildings look ambiguous to me as to whether they're houses or bars/storefronts that don't open until later.