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People On This Group Are Sharing Examples Of The ‘Urban Hell’ That Humans Built For Themselves (50 New Pics)
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Think of it, there are 4.4 billion inhabitants, or around 56% of the world's population, living in cities worldwide. Each person of these billions needs not only space but a vast array of resources to function. Then, a level of comfort, well-being and health has to be ensured, which is becoming somewhat of a challenge, to say the least.
In order to see what happens if things go out of control with cities turning into concrete jungles, we’re taking a look at dystopian, yet very real scenarios shared on the corner of Reddit known as “Urban Hell.” This online community is putting to light the dark side of modern development which results in these candid, hard-to-look-at pictures of both urban and suburban landscapes turning into something unrecognizable.
Scroll down through the batch of the newest posts and be sure to share our previous articles from Urban Hell here, here and here.
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#1
Landlord Puts Up Advertising On Scaffolding Which Blocks All Light And Air
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#3
30 People Getting Coffee vs. 30 People Enjoying Coffe
#4
Mumbai, India. The Divide Between The Richest People In India vs. One Of The Poorest. Extreme Wealth Inequality On Display
#5
Residential Block In Hong Kong
Stardust she/her 3 years ago
I’m sure I stayed here when i was 5. The buildings were so tall that I was afraid of trying to escape during a fire
#6
View From My Hotel - Tangshan China, Birth Of The Chinese Coal Industry!
#7
Vegas, Minus The Neon Glow
#8
Los Angeles Train Tracks Not Much Better Than India
Andy Saputo 3 years ago
This was due to thieves opening the train cars and stealing the packages (and leaving the empty boxes). I thought they solved this problem last year?
#9
I See Your Sliding Puzzle Going Wrong And I Raise You Sao Paulo!
#11
This Is The Longest Traffic Jam Ever Recorded. The China National Highway 110 Was Clogged Up For 100 Kms For 10 Days
#12
A Train Engine Passing Through The Bandra Station Tracks Of Mumbai, India
#13
Los Angeles
#14
Urban Hell In The Making
#15
Calcutta
a fruity dream of delusion 3 years ago
something about these pictures of huge slowly decaying apartment buildings somewhat terrifies me.
#16
Three Socioeconomic Classes In The Philippines
#17
Phayathai, Bangkok, Thailand
a fruity dream of delusion 3 years ago
i can’t begin to imagine the chaos that would ensue if those were to fall.
#18
American Cookie Cutter Suburb: Autocentric, Boring, Dystopian, Void Of Soul, Void Of Culture, Void Of Happiness
#19
Slums Of Manila
#20
Dhaka Bangladesh
#21
"Progress" Is Not Always A Good Thing
#22
Beach Life In Karachi
#23
Severe Pollution In Delhi NCR, Pictures From Today And September 2022
#24
Alleyway In India
#25
Venice Beach California Homeless Encampment
2picklesinabun 3 years ago
Portland, Oregon looks like this too. As does a city on the coast. Awful
#26
Gurugram, India. Aqi Over 400 Because Of Farm Fires
a fruity dream of delusion 3 years ago
i’m just thinking about how bad that’s going to be for both human’s and animals lungs.. my god
#27
Mumbai (Bombay)
#28
Dubai, Uae. 1985 vs. 2016
#29
Falling Asleep, Bangladesh. A Large Number Of Homeless People In Dhaka, Bangladesh Have Lost Their Property Due To Natural Disasters. For Them, An Asphalt Street Is The Best They Can Hope For, Otherwise They Have To Sleep On Plastic Trash
#30
Was Talking To My Wife About Bakersfield, Ca And Did A Google Image Search...holy Hell
#31
A Playground In Tokyo
Dahamada Jamawas 3 years ago
The fence in the back looks like the last kid managed to escape succesfully
#32
Even The Ocean Can Be Hell
#33
Pyongyang (North Korea) In 1992, Two Years Before A Famine That Killed Up To 15% Of The Country's Population
#34
Singapore
Dre Mosley 3 years ago (edited)
This sucks, but there are some jaw dropping sites in Singapore though.
#35
Somewhere In North Korea
#36
Taroconte, Canary Islands, Spain
Official Cat 3 years ago
TBH this seems like a really innovative way to save space and doesn't look that bad compared to others on this list.
#37
Penchala Interchange, Kuala Lumpur (Repost)
#38
Cairo, Egypt - Wonderful City With Terrible Air Pollution
#39
Newly Built Kid's Playground In Trebišov, Slovakia
#40
Driving To Huaguoyuan, Guiyang, China
Dahamada Jamawas 3 years ago
I know these buildings from Sim City and it was always a clear sign "Your town has some serious problems"
#41
Portland, Oregon
#42
Alexandria Egypt
#43
Concrete Island, Hashima, Japan
#44
Being The Most Sparsely Populated Country In The World But Still Building Concrete Jungle Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
#45
Identical Single-Family Mcmansions
#46
North Korea, Keasong
Dahamada Jamawas 3 years ago
That's quite the opposite of Sao Paulo - can't decide which road I'd prefer
#47
Tong Lau, Hong Kong
#48
Is It Considered An Urban Hell?
#49
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - More Than 60% Of The Population Do Not Have Plumbing. Instead Rely On Outhouse Toilets & Communal Wells For Fresh Water. Hardly Any Paved Roads With Stray Dogs Lurking Around
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
Most of the population live in rural areas, so this headline is making their independent lifestyle sound like a bad situation. Also, many of those stray dogs are living out in the wild, not in cities.
#50
It's Just Infrastructure
#51
A Gas Station With 120 Pumps
#52
Bkk Building At Budapest
#53
Clifton Beach, The Whole Shot
DonnerDinnerParty 3 years ago
Hey!! This is on this list but as a closeup of the guy standing on the trashy beach and another seemingly frolicking in the water
#54
Average Parking Space Outside Apartments In Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
#55
Powai Hills Separating Rural And Urban Mumbai
#56
Someone Robbed The Building And Only Left The Facade
#57
Łódz, Poland
#58
An Agricultural Field In Balashikha, Russia That Was Turned Into Housing Estate
#59
Rush Hour In Dhaka, Bangladesh
Gustav Gallifrey 3 years ago
I've beento Dhaka. Never so glad to leave a place, and that includes places where i was shot at.
#60
Kriviy, Rih
#62
Athens, Greece
a fruity dream of delusion 3 years ago
WOW. it’s hard to comprehend the sheer size of that city, that’s insane.
#64
I Found This In My Camera Roll, I Think It Was From Brazil
#65
Hell
#66
College Dormitory Of Vit, Vellore, India
#67
A Bunch Of Bollards Blocking A Shared Use Path In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
#68
Falowiec (“The Waveform”), The Longest Building In Europe. Gdańsk, Poland
#69
A Highway Bridge Across A Beach In Naha, Japan
#70
Suburban Meets Nature
#71
Took This From A Plane Over Dallas, Tx
#72
Metro Manila , Philippines (Btw The River Is Brown)
The Happy Hijabi 3 years ago
I don't know about Manila, but not all brown rivers are polluted. So before you judge a city based on that, please remember that. Brisbane River for instance nicknamed the Brown Snake because it is naturally brown from silt and stuff found there. So yeah...
#73
Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Where The 5th Largest Oil Refinery In America Is Right Behind The State Legislature And Downtown
#74
Belfast, Northern Ireland. 1973
#75
Light Pollution? What’s That?
#76
North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
#77
One Of Many "Slums" Or "Informal Areas" Of Cairo, Egypt
#78
Bangalore, South India
#79
Impressive Engineering Footbridge
#80
I Really Wish This One Specific Bit Of Scaffolding Didn't Have A Samsung Advert [barcelona, 2022]
![I Really Wish This One Specific Bit Of Scaffolding Didn't Have A Samsung Advert [barcelona, 2022]](https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/637252ed6dd9e_wrckccjvhgs91-png__700.jpg "I Really Wish This One Specific Bit Of Scaffolding Didn't Have A Samsung Advert [barcelona, 2022]")
John Topper 3 years ago
Who approved advertising on the sagrada familia? It's like putting bumper stickers on a Phantom, you just don't do it.
#81
Yangtze River In Chongqing, China, 2016
#82
Post Soviet Georgian Urban Hell
#83
Canary Wharf, London
#84
Welcome To Post-Soviet Tbilisi
#85
2814 Getting Louder
#86
The West Point Township In Monrovia, Liberia, One Of The Most Dangerous Place In The World
#87
North Philly
#88
Taipei, Taiwan
#90
Belfast Northern Ireland Last Year
#91
Los Angeles By Plane. No End In Sight
#92
[chihuahua, Mexico] Help, It's Spreading To Our Country (Is This Suburban Or Urban Hell, Or Rather Fuck Cars Material?)
![[chihuahua, Mexico] Help, It's Spreading To Our Country (Is This Suburban Or Urban Hell, Or Rather Fuck Cars Material?)](https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/637255373b4c2_sxyv1xj6ean91__700.jpg "[chihuahua, Mexico] Help, It's Spreading To Our Country (Is This Suburban Or Urban Hell, Or Rather Fuck Cars Material?)")
#93
So Many Broken Down Cables
#94
Close To Athens City Center
#95
New York City During The Great Blizzard Of 1888
DonnerDinnerParty 3 years ago
Those wires 😳 I'm glad the U.S caught up with wire management sooner rather than later
#96
Coming Back Home In Uttar Pradesh
#98
The Sketchiest Hotel I Stayed In
Dre Mosley 3 years ago (edited)
Wouldn't even know it was a hotel had you not told me. I see the sign says "Hotel," but still.
#99
Circle Jerk (Punta Gorda, FL)
#100
Texas, Can You Not? Plano, Texas. Photo Credit David Hawkins
#101
Cookie Cutter Apartment Living: Gwangju, South Korea
#102
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#103
Seoul Apartments
#104
The Sidewalk Where You Have To Walk Sideways, Philippines
#105
Manila Philippines
#106
Electric Post On A Road In The Philippines. Some Absurdity Looks Photoshopped
DonnerDinnerParty 3 years ago
Is it bad I find it funny that someone actually hit the pole though 😂🤷🏼
#107
"An Astonishing Architectural Triumph" Or "The Worst Building Of The Year." 15 Clerkenwell Close, London Ec1
#108
Bike Lane In Clichy, North Of Paris
Stefaan De Clerck 3 years ago
Not surprisingly, that cyclist takes his chance on the street and ignores the cycle path.
#109
Holy Church Of Lidl
#110
Me Taking A Picture Of A Man Taking A Picture Of A Seagull Eating Garbage
#111
New York City, US
#112
Moscow, Russia In 2022
#113
The Downtown Connector In Atlanta During Rush Hour
#114
Ads To Sportive Bet Companies In Front Of A Highschool In Romania, Buvharest
#115
Ahmedabad, Has The Potential Of Being The Biggest City You Never Heard Of
#116
Down In Ohio
#117
How Could Anyone Ever Want To Live Here?
Alicat Wombat 3 years ago (edited)
In answer to your question, please see the preceding 101 photos
#118
Tulsa, Oklahoma
The Darkest Timeline 3 years ago
It’s bland but at least it’s clean and not overrun with traffic
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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Just got back from overseas, and found that the urban hellscape there considerred "average" is what the US would think of as LA's worst. Sooooo..... Be grateful for what you have, but don't scorn the people who live in these places. They'd like better, too. It's not always as easy as "make a wish".
Caro Caro 3 years ago
Wait!, you were in the area and you didn't pop by ? ;) I agree, we are very lucky.
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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Just got back from overseas, and found that the urban hellscape there considerred "average" is what the US would think of as LA's worst. Sooooo..... Be grateful for what you have, but don't scorn the people who live in these places. They'd like better, too. It's not always as easy as "make a wish".
Caro Caro 3 years ago
Wait!, you were in the area and you didn't pop by ? ;) I agree, we are very lucky.
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