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71 Photos Of Cities That Feel Less Like Homes And More Like Warnings (New Pics)
Wherever you look, buildings are everywhere, blocking the skyline and filling up all our open spaces. Even though a concrete jungle can provide plenty of comfortable homes, it still feels like a dystopian nightmare when everything is grey and soulless.
That’s why folks are becoming more aware of urban hellscapes around the world that don’t seem like they should exist in the first place. You can check out all the shocking photos in this list, but be warned: it might paint quite a grim picture.
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#1
Inside One Of The Last Slums In Hong Kong
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#2
Aguascalientes, Mexico
#4
Trash Brought About By An Ongoing Monsoon Surge In The Philippines
#5
Los Angeles, USA
ChickyChicky 3 weeks ago
The homeless problems in the US and Canada cannot be solved by one city, county, state, or even country. The problem is massive and interconnected.
#6
An Apartment Building In Philippines
#7
Los Angeles Homelessness Crisis
Latrelle Brown 3 weeks ago
I still love how everyone thinks they know how to solve this issue, when the problem isn't council people causing or letting this happen, it's a wealth gap that Republicans keep allowing to grow. Period
#8
This Comically Narrow House In Japan
Janissary35680 3 weeks ago
Along the European side of the Bosphorus in İstanbul between Arnavutköy and Bebek there are rows of a few surviving 19th-century seaside "mansions" that are very long and almost as narrow as this. If you stand in the middle of a room with your arms outstretched, you can almost touch both walls; two people standing side-by-side can easily do so. It's worth pointing out that this wooden building is much older than the two buildings flanking it. There was very likely a whole row of structures similar to the one in the middle here at one time. This is the only survivor.
#9
The Daily Destruction Of Ukraine. Completely Ignored Till The Point This Has Become The Norm. Heartbreaking
#11
Shimla,india
#12
Communal Apartments. St.petersburg, Russia
Герберт Майн 3 weeks ago
This is not normal for Saint Petersburg, by the way. This is one of the old houses, which were turned into communal housing after the Revolution. Nowadays there are very few of such communal apartments left in the city and they are usually much better maintained. But there are some of the bad ones left, sadly.
#13
Dubai Nad Al Sheba, United Arab Emirates
#14
Convenience Stores, Coffee Shops, And A Mountain On Fire
Roman Arendt 3 weeks ago
Thank DJT, we'll even have more of these beauties to look at, now that he lifted nearly all restrictions on CO2 emissions for coal and gas plants, whose CEOs (coincidentally???) are his golf buddies... 🙄
#15
Since You Guys Are Fed Up With Egyptian Cairo Let Me Show You Us Cairo (Cairo, Illinois)
#16
The Urban Destruction Of Nature. Manaus, Brazil
#17
Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Venice Of The East
#18
Norilsk, Russia
#19
That Sense Of Intense Contradiction, Chongqing, China
#20
The Bronx, New York 1977
#21
'mammoth' Building In Zagreb, Croatia -Brutalism At Its Finest
Lady Gypsy Rain 3 weeks ago
This looks like it started as one small building and they just keep adding on
#24
The "Salis" Of Scampia, The Most Disastrous Italian Redevelopment Project, A Symbol Of The Mafia And The Decay Of Naples
#25
Detroit 2007
#26
To Have A Roof Over Your Head Is To Have Everything. In The Philippines, Shanty Houses Are Made From Whatever Materials People Can Find
#27
Social Inequality In Mexico
#28
In And Around Brighton, UK
#29
Power, Telephone, And Internet Line Poles In Tatuapé, São Paulo, Brazil
Latrelle Brown 3 weeks ago
It doesn't look scary to climb because it's hard to tell which is which, sort of, 😂
#30
Hanging Houses In Kiso-Fukushima
#32
Arkhangelsk, Russia
#33
New Orleans, USA
Jeremy 3 weeks ago (edited)
I've lived all over the US and New Orleans is by far the most beautiful. This photo shows one little corner that's maybe unattractive but that's normal for a city. Aside from the beautiful architecture, art, and music all around you, New Orleans has a TON of green. It's not a d**d landscape. The streets are lined with trees and there are way more parks than most cities in the US, including the massive 1300-acre City Park at its center.
#34
Why Isn’t Brutalism Appreciated Enough?
#35
Pipeline Estate, Nairobi, Kenya
#36
The Post-War Curse (Sudan)
#38
Designed By The World Trade Center Architect To Be A "Paradise For The Poor." 20 Years Later, It Was Blown Up
#39
According To The Wccf, With A Public Green Space/Park Ratio Of 2.2% Of Its Total Urban Area, Istanbul Is The City With The Second-Least Green Space In The World, Ranking Just Behind Dubai
Janissary35680 3 weeks ago
And yet when I landed back in istanbul on my first annual leave from Dhahran Saudi Arabia, I was astonished at how virulent green everything seemed to be. It's astonishing what you can get used to by slow degree.
#40
Giza ,egypt
#41
A Futuristic 1933 Gas Station In São Paulo, Brazil, Completely Bricked Up And Swallowed By Urban Decay
#42
State Tower, Bangkok
#43
I Live Here (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
#44
Egypt Cairo
shg stewart 3 weeks ago
Picture taken in the middle of the dry season? Most of the Middle East looks pretty brown in summer, but is exploding with greenery and flowers by November.
#45
Hyderabad India
#46
Cairo From Above
#48
Egyptians Discovered This Sub And Said "Hold My Non-Alcoholic Beer"
#49
São Paulo. The Original Concrete Jungle
KitchenToto 2 weeks ago (edited)
Better than living in slums but still poor people need better housing
#55
Long Island
David 3 weeks ago
Thats the Queensbridge Houses, a NYC Public Housing Projects in Long Island City, in the Borough of Queens, right over the river from Manhattan (right off the water by the gorgeous Queenbridge Park). When people say "Long Island" they mean Nassau and Suffolk, not the 2 Long Island based Borough's, and not LIC. This is a Public Housing complex right off the East River in NYC.
#58
Let’s Just Add A Concrete Slob Port To One Of The Most Gorgeous Towns Of The World
#59
New York 1981
#61
A River In Wakayama, Japan
#63
Nelly's Abandoned Mansion In Missouri That He Finally Sold In 2021
#64
Golf Courses Are Such A Waste Of Green Space (Manila)
#65
Cambodia’s Sihanoukville Struggles After Scam Economy Crackdown
Foxglove🇮🇪 3 weeks ago
This has all sprung up since I was there in 2000, it was a nice place then
#66
Italy - Naples 2008
#67
Meet The "Donut Houses": The Boldest Architectural Experiment Of The Ussr
#70
Vip Entrance To The Shoe Repair Shop, Russia
#71
Just A Comparison How Much Lower The Floors Have Become To Squeeze More People In, Left Is Pre-War, Right Is Built After Ww2
#72
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nm 3 weeks ago
Some of these hellish were built in Communist states. Your point is...?
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Wollstonecraft 3 weeks ago
Why do people act surprised by this. What did they think the world would look like with over population and rampant consumerism.
nm 3 weeks ago
Some of these hellish were built in Communist states. Your point is...?
Load More Replies... Wollstonecraft 3 weeks ago
Why do people act surprised by this. What did they think the world would look like with over population and rampant consumerism.
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