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When we look at towering skyscrapers, we usually enjoy how majestic they make the skyline look. But every structure casts a shadow.
The subreddit 'Urban Hell' is a place where modern concrete jungles are called out for all the chaos and disarray that they entail.
Created back in 2013, this online community now has 1.2 million members, who are regularly sharing pictures of buildings and cities that suggest we're already living in a dystopia.
Whether it's the dirty slums against the shiny downtown in the background, abandoned stadiums, or packed streets under neon lights, is this really the best we humans can do?
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#1
Light Pollution From Train Line Over Old Houses In China
The Greatest JMS W Cool Animation 2 years ago
That just sucks, except if you have a cardboard box or something thick and solid to cover the windows
WindySwede 2 years ago
Doesn't look pleasant. But how long is the exposure and what ISO and shutter? Say, for example, 10 minute exposure, 12800 ISO and 1,4 shutter. Then everything could look bright.
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TonyTee 2 years ago
The photo itself is beautiful but at the same time the context of the photo is lousy, no respect for the residents who are living there in those houses, for more than one reason; I think the main one being how the f**k is anyone supposed to relax and sleep at night with that bright light surrounding the area and with all that loud train noise? It could’ve been such a peaceful serene area for the outter city limits, but they had to go and ruin it somehow.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
There are lots of horror stories about how home owners are treated in China. Stories like this are common: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/chinese-farmer-cannon-fireworks-defend-home-government-eviction-article-1.181844
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Ken Beattie 2 years ago
It's a gorgeous photograph, but yeah it'd be pretty awful to live there. I wonder whether the trains run late at night? Maybe (I hope!) the lights go off (or at least down) at midnight.
Ray McArdle 2 years ago
The attitude that any development is good creates problems like this. This is bad development.
Marco Richter 2 years ago
this looks somewhat haunting. Like the setting for a survival horror game
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#2
Hong Kong, Enough Said
User# 6 2 years ago
Well, if you have a large amount of people and limitid surface area, up is the only way to go. It's hideous, but I can't think of an alternative that doesn't involve forcibly removing people.
Libstak 2 years ago
I can think of some creativity being used in the building designs to look more organically unique, less uniform utilitarian...
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Sum Guy 2 years ago
Actually makes sense... many people need to live somewhere and the alternative here is American style suburbs and that in itself brings out a whole host of problems
Lisa Myers 2 years ago
American suburbs are a problem? Not if you like peace and quiet.
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TonyTee 2 years ago
The only thing I’ll say is I’m sure the views you get on the upper floors of those buildings are amazing to look at. Only catch is, if those are residential buildings, rent must be sky high like the buildings themselves.
Jane Campbell 2 years ago
Most suites about the same size as the inside of a bus or a family of 3
According to Yan Liu, a professor of geographical information science at the University of Queensland, and Rachel Gallagher, a Ph.D. candidate at the same institution, zoning has been the key tool used by urban planners to influence how our cities grow and change for almost a century.
"Contemporary zoning truly developed after the Second World War," the researchers wrote. "A combination of large real estate interests and the emerging field of urban planning created low-density, car-centric suburbs."
Urban plans called for standardized subdivisions and land uses, and engineering of streets and infrastructure.
#3
Balcony Facade Of A Famous Hotel In Thailand
The Greatest JMS W Cool Animation 2 years ago
I was confused at what's I'm looking at until I read the title, insane
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 2 years ago
"Do you have a room with a balcony?" "Sir, we do not have rooms without balconies"
#4
Gurugram, India
The Greatest JMS W Cool Animation 2 years ago
Holy moly, I've never seen that many vehicles on a road before O_o
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Welcome to Asia! I haven't been to India but I have been to a couple other Asian countries and traffic is insane. Bangkok, Thailand literally has more linear metres of cars than roads. So it's physically impossible for them to all be on the road at the same time 0_o
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Thee8thsense 2 years ago
Here, one must turn up the music in your car, and become one with the jam.
Hailey Childers 2 years ago
This reminds me of the road in China that's 50 lanes, but that merges into 4
#5
Satellite View Of New Delhi (A City Of Some 20 Million People)
Esist Nosrep 2 years ago
It is a place where you can be born and live your whole life and the only tree you see is the coffin you are buried in
Avani Gupta 2 years ago
Not all of the 20 million people live that way. That's are beautiful gardens, parks, wildlife sanctuaries, and forests in and around Delhi
Jane Cortez 2 years ago
We are the single most destructive species to ever exist, poisoning the earth, the water, the air. Roughly 10% of existing life, ( plants, insects included), go extinct over a decade. Sad to say but with humanity overrunning the earth we need to come up, as a collective, greed, corruption, consumerism needs to be set aside for there to be a future!
Amy Beckler 2 years ago
Awful to believe,but we have put ourselves and nature on a highway to hell...
Load More Replies... Kelly Scott 2 years ago
Here's what's mind blowing: 5 x 20 million is only 100 million. You need 10 x 100 million to make a billion. And we have 8 billion people in the world. Someone check my math. Thanks.
Urban development was largely characterized by detached houses in residential suburbs, while large road networks separated these suburbs from commercial and industrial areas of the city.
However, in the late 1980s, many cities began to introduce planning mechanisms to restrict outward expansion. Changes in zoning allowed for increased density and a mix of land uses—the aim was to encourage redevelopment of existing urban areas.
#6
Naples, Italy
felix 2 years ago
I'm from Naples and I saw worst than this not only in Naples. Cities needs infrastructure and if the space is not enough this is the solution, probably council offer a miserable refund that they prefer to stay there or they doesn't have the chance to move due poverty to other areas
The Fairy Dogmother 2 years ago
Lived in Naples for 7 years and used to have to hang my washing IN the house or it would smell horrible… in Naples, nothing is every truly dry anyway.
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VioletHunter 2 years ago
I mean.. that highway could have gone right through the house instead.
Nikole 2 years ago
It’s not the U.S. so the government can’t just take your stuff and shrug “eminent domain”.
Load More Replies... Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
I don't know, part of me is glad that this family was like, "No, we're not selling to you."
Ericthedead 2 years ago (edited)
The house of the Troll from Three Billygoats Gruff. You don’t think he just lives huddled up under the bridge?
#7
Caribbean Coast Estate, Hong Kong
DadManBlues 2 years ago
In our country (Hungary) there is a rule about the minimum distance between tall buildings not to obstruct air movement and ventilation.
Chronically Online Panda 2 years ago
On top of that these are also really expensive and most people cannot afford proper housing
Cassi Lyris 2 years ago (edited)
Everyone knows the best part of visiting a coast is a 10 minute elevator ride and a scenic view of the smog...
#8
Egyptian Times Square, Cairo, Egypt
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
Greed, and the idea that everyone ELSE is stupid but YOU are the exception.
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#9
Istanbul Traffic
User# 6 2 years ago
Well, that bridge is the most important transport link between Europe and Asia, no wonder it's busy.
Milan 2 years ago
The reason of the traffic jam is the physical toll. This is the reason of traffic jams also in Italy or Croatia on summer vacations, hate it and avoid this countries at summer with a car. Just cancel the damn physical toll and make it digital or vignette….
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Glenn Milliken 2 years ago
I know how do we make the world's largest traffic jam let's turn a 16 Lane Highway down to four in about 300 ft
Super Beast 2 years ago
i am an istanbulite, and if we can we avoid this altogether by taking the ferry or the underwater train - but those services arent extensive enough to support the huge population
María Hermida 2 years ago
There are twenty lanes in the road leading to the bridge, but only four or five on the bridge itself. What could go wrong?
Yet, as cities become denser and the traditional suburban "house and garden" is redeveloped, buildings are replacing trees, and settlements become grayer.
Replacing an existing home with a larger house or with several townhouses typically results in all existing vegetation being stripped from the site.
#10
The Other-Side Of Rio De Janeiro
Alexia 2 years ago
"I live in the favela, I believe we can change it for the better" - heard this back in 2014 during the World Cup in Brazil. Loved it.
Anabanana 2 years ago
Also the world cup in Brazil was massacre. They burnt soooo many favela's houses around the stadiums so the tourists couldn't see the poverty. it was insane what happened here. Sooooo much money wasted and ppl literally starving to death in some states. The fancy stadiums that aren't in the major cities (são Paulo and Rio for example) are just abandoned now. Absolutely horrible
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MasterJoseph 2 years ago
This is the equivalent of shoving all your stuff in the closet when told to clean your room
Alexandr Tęgrăma 2 years ago
I assume the hygiene is the issue here but by sight this is way better than all the big buildings quarters in this article
#11
Detroit, Michigan
Willem Oosterhof 2 years ago
Not all is lost. Second picture is the Ransom Gillis Mansion. Believe it or not, this one is saved! See what is looks like now. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_Gillis_House
Tj Hhg 2 years ago
That is not the Ransom Gillis Mansion. Windows are wrong. Chimney in wrong place. Background wrong. Different house
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Yuffa Kinazzo 2 years ago
That's what happens when you take your industries to other countries for cheap labour. The people who work move out and the criminals move in. How many shootings in Detroit this past weekend??? Nobody talks about that though.
Heather Vandegrift 2 years ago
How many in Atlanta, Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Dallas? Every large metro area has dangerous pockets. Criminals don't necessarily move in so much as economically disadvantaged people who couldn't afford to leave when the auto industry completely shattered the local economy turned to criminal activity because there weren't legit jobs available. You can sit on your high horse and claim you'd never turn to crime, sitting in your home with food and security, but when ACTUALLY FACING Rick bottom, if leaving isn't an option and the only options are have your family starve, or do this illegal thing that you'll get paid a lot of money for, most people will have an ethical dilemma at least
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Upstaged75 2 years ago
There's a show on HG TV where 2 guys fix up dilapidated houses in Detroit and sell them at low prices to help repopulate the neighborhoods. They've done a lot of good.
Ericthedead 2 years ago
I’ve been looking for a new place to skin and dismember victims. But Detroit seems a little too dangerous.
Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
Oh that's wild, the middle picture there, the Victorian house. Here in AZ there's a house in my city that looks exactly like that, except intact. It used to be the home of a prominent local lawyer, since retired. I wonder if both were built with the same blue prints?.. what a wacky coincidence...
#12
Contrasts
emunael 2 years ago (edited)
It would nice if one could include the place in the title more often
Marco Richter 2 years ago
"You have reached the edge of the flat earth. There's nothing behind the wall"
Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 2 years ago
*salutes* Ready to knock everything off now, Sir.
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Roman Bykov 2 years ago
Moscow City District. Shot on a very long lenses so it compresses the perspective alot. In reality the skyscrapers are on the other side of the river at least a kilometer away from the lowrise district in the front of the photo. Great picture regardless 👍
StretcherBearer 2 years ago
I find this juxtaposition beautiful in a way. The image itself not the implications behind it.
#13
Mumbai Water Pipes With Garbage And Slums, Those Pipes Supply Water To Localities With Apartment Rates Exceeding A Million Dollar For 3bhk In Bandra, Santacruz
rullyman 2 years ago
The corporations that produce all this plastic need to be held accountable. There are other options available. People didn't use plastic bags for thousands of years of human history and we did just fine. Time to return to cloth bags, glass bottles, and paper wrapping for food
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Compact city land-use policies and urban forest policies need to work together to ensure that there could be both high-quality built environments and extensive tree cover.
Experts argue that cities urgently need more strategic identification of small and large lots that are suitable for more intensified development, particularly to reduce the need for the widespread low-level consolidation that threatens tree cover.
#14
Once Upon A Time, These Houses Have A Sea View, Now They Have This View
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Interestingly enough, there are probably another row of houses behind these ones that were all pissed off when the smaller red-roofed buildings were built too. This is why local government zoning rules need to be in concrete and not influenced by developers throwing huge amounts of money at them.
Beans 2 years ago
Agree with this. Where I am in Australia they keep building apartments in residential zones and knocking down houses to make things way tall and obscure everything behind it. I saw this house online for sale that had this beautiful lush garden with succulents etc, it was really beautiful. Well the people they sold it to tore out the garden and subdivided the lot, now it's just a gross uninspired grey house where the garden used to be. Made me so sad .
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Katherine Bridgerton 2 years ago
at least paint a mural of the ocean on the side of those huge ugly ones
Amy Beckler 2 years ago
Those very same not-too-smart suckers are going to be abandoning their sandbar in the future.
ThatSunniChick 2 years ago
Like my kids edging each other out of the way to be first in line / get the best view. You can almost picture the C suites elbowing each other in the ribs to be closest to the waterfront and get those primo rates
#15
Hong Kong Apartments
Edward Teague 2 years ago
Imagine accidentally knocking your beer bottle off the railing in the penthouse?
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This urban hell group has a real thing about Hong Kong. To me it's much better than the vast distance that would house this people in a suburb somewhere like the Midwest or Australia, with chemical lawns and no chance of walking to the local shop! We don't even know what these ones look like on the inside. I live in a flat and love it.
Susan Teter 2 years ago
I was just b*tching about mowing my lawn. Doesn't seem that bad after looking at this.
Edward Teague 2 years ago
Yeah..imagine the guy that gets the call 'congrats! You're hired to wash the windows!'
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#16
Metro Manila, Philippines
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
That's what gets me. If the trash was removed, this would be a pleasant-ish picture.
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CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
A major indicator your government leaders do not care about the poor and homeless: cuts in the waste pickup in a community.
Paul Brown 2 years ago
Humanity is a disease upon the earth. Can't wait for our Alien Overlords to get here and save Earth.
ChexmyLicks/🇯🇵 2 years ago
Expect trashes everywhere u go in the Philippines, Manila is rlly popular
#17
Burlington Beach, Ontario
Nathan Pogorzala 2 years ago
This area is absolutely loaded with steel coke plants, mills and chemical factories. Whenever we would drive past it, we would call it "Canada's dirty secret". If you want to die from Benzene related illnesses, move here.
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Evan H 2 years ago
The steel and chemical plants within a mile of that beach are more worrisome. Ontario Canada has some absolutely beautiful lakes and beaches, but that is not one of them.
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The Starsong Princess 2 years ago
I live near here and go there often. This is a bad angle and it’s more attractive than this although there are many nicer beaches on Lake Ontario. The power lines are unfortunate but city has done a ton of work to reclaim the area and turn it into a recreation area. There’s sailing, kayaking and boating. As well, the water is extensively tested and is clean and safe. Huge difference from when I was a kid.
Pierre Denis 2 years ago
Exactly. The picture is overly zoomed and looks worse than the reality. This place is 5 min from my home and is pretty decent actually, given the location, it's pretty amazing. The pollution from the industrial area in the background is much less than it used to be back in the 70's and the dominant winds actually push it away most of the time.
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Bruce Horton 2 years ago
This long lens shot is extremely deceptive. The beach is pretty nice.
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
But mostly the utility executives want lines they can put up quickly, in as many places as possible; require minimal maintenance; and for which they can charge their customers a buttload of money in transmission charges. OH transmission lines are about revenue, and revenue only.
Load More Replies... Ericthedead 2 years ago (edited)
I thought Canada was all hockey stadiums, beavers, and huge expansive forests of maple trees that are lousy with Bigfeets.
Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
I don't know if I'd want to visit the beach with all of the electrical power towers over it...
At the same time, land-use regulation should ensure that both low-yield and higher-density redevelopment maintain the contribution of private land to the urban forest. Existing and new approaches to achieving this outcome need to be considered, whether that's done through local rules, government programs, or incentive schemes.
#18
Small City In China
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
The interesting thing for me, is that even with all those buildings there is a ton of green in the picture. Far more than you'd get in most cities.
Christiane 2 years ago
There are hundreds if not thousands of 'small cities' in Inner Mongolia - which could explain the scenery. Unfortunately most of these cities are abandoned. Ghost towns.
Load More Replies... Mint Sauce 2 years ago
The human race! A species so intelligent that it is able to breed at a level beyond which it can live sustainably, chasing designer brands in the pursuit short-term enlightenment whilst simultaneously creating the beginnings of its own dystopian future.
Jimmy Pigeon 2 years ago
Well planned city. Prob nice to live in. (Apart from being in a police state)
Garrett Hall 2 years ago
This is actually the future. The suburbs will be torn up and replanted as wild land. Cities will become more compact, with taller buildings. Everyone will either need to be a country mouse, or a city mouse, so the suburbs can turn back into species diversity and carbon cycling. That is assuming we want the human race to survive...
#19
Mansion Under Bay Bridge In San Fransisco, Ca
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 2 years ago
I guess they didn't want to move when the freeway was being built
Shelli Aderman 2 years ago
The Nimitz House. Former Naval home, now abandoned… https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr6KqrTuV5P/?img_index=8
karen Young 2 years ago
Don't hate it. Noise you would tune out. More worried crash and something fell over side!
Mangelo Il Fumatori 2 years ago
That's the Naval Training Station Quarters 1 (aka the Nimitz House) on Yerba Buena Island.
Hilary Gilbertson 2 years ago
Was a US Navy-owned home built on a US Navy-owned island between SF and Oakland. They eventually negotiated ownership with State of California when the Bay Bridge needed major reconstruction after collapsing in the Loma Prieta earthquake. None of which makes it look any better.
#20
Phnom Penh New Gated Community
The Greatest JMS W Cool Animation 2 years ago
This looks like something straight out of a game
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
It really does, and I hate the copy paste approach to housing when it's done like this. How would you know you were even on the right street, let along at the right house?
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Donglens 2 years ago
Houses look big and probs expensive. No originality, character, or personality to the houses. Why pay all that money for that??!!
J 2 years ago
Most track housing in the US has 3-4 floor plans and each floor plan has several outside facades so you can mix it up
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Holly Benedict 2 years ago
Management needs you to find the difference between these two pictures
#21
Merry Christmas Sign On A Blast Furnace At Brazil
Lucille 2 2 years ago
No I definitely thought dystopian water slides too 😅
Load More Replies... Ericthedead 2 years ago (edited)
Almost seems like they are f*****g with people. Merry Xmas bitches!
Rapid urban consolidation can change urban landscapes significantly over the next few decades, and the right decisions need to be made to ensure we don't end up with more "urban hell," which can be further explored in our previous publications on the subreddit here and here.
#22
Tokyo From Skytree
Hawkmoon 2 years ago
Tokyo is both fascinating and nightmarish. I would really like to visit this city, but living there must be hell.
rullyman 2 years ago (edited)
It's not nightmarish at all. Good transport, delicious cheap food options, and accounting for salaries the rent is much more affordable than London. I'll be moving back to Japan next year and can't wait to be living in Tokyo. The city is full of little parks and many people have container gardens outside their home or business too. The only downsides- no night bus so if you're out past midnight, you have to take an expensive taxi home. And it's easy to get lost in the shopping spaces under the large stations.
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Adi A. 2 years ago
What was really interesting for me in Tokyo is that, even with all the concrete, from ground the city is really green with lost of parks.
rullyman 2 years ago
Plus so many houses and businesses have container gardens outside their door. Sometimes they even have tiny ponds with cloud minnows to eat the mosquito larvae!
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kay s. 2 years ago
was there a month ago for 3 weeks and loved it. it was clean, public transportation was efficient, reliable, and SAFE, the people were extremely kind and welcoming, and the food was SO DAMN GOOD! it looks like and urban nightmare from above but i found that neighborhoods create little pockets of familiarity that make the entire city seem much less dauting. after a day of exploring, it was lovely to step out of the train station and feel like you were home. highly recommended!
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
Tickets - bought, hotels - reserved, Duolingo birb - still annoying, but helpful. I can hardly wait. Btw. Travel time between Helsinki and Tokyo is now over 13 hours because the flight needs to go around Russian airspace, so the options are south of it or north meaning going over the north pole!
The Greatest JMS W Cool Animation 2 years ago
Again, I haven't seen that many buildings in one place/area, WOW
Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
Oh, I've been here! It's actually pretty nice. Crowded, but honestly everyone is pretty chill...until late night when a whole lotta people are drunk.
Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
And when I say been here, I mean the Sky Tree, not just Tokyo in general.
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J 2 years ago
Tokyo is one of the best city to live in! I am living there now, and it is just an amazing place to live and have a family. Fantastic and very affordable public transportation (one subway journey is typically 1 USD), but you can easily commute by bicycle (I ride a bicycle across the center of the city every day and there is never any traffic jam). Food is amazing, and a very nice lunch can cost as little as 6-7 USD. If you don't live on a main road, there is virtually no noise at home. There are many parks and most are alsolutely gorgeous. Fantastic museums, concerts, festivals all year round. It takes 1 hour by train to go to ski resort and there are nice beaches nearby. For those who don't understand how to live in a large city, my previous village had less than 1000 inhibitants, but Tokyo is in fact an agglomeration of smaller cities with all their differences. I love being here and so does my family !
#23
Tokyo, Japan
ThatSunniChick 2 years ago
My gaming conditioned brain says there's a code in those lights somewhere...2435? 3575? Lol
David Bradley 2 years ago
This looks like UR (urban renewal) housing. It's kind of public housing and really quite nice. I guess if you are from a "buy a house and land in the suburbs" culture it would look bad. If not, it is actually quite good. I am from a "buy a house and land in the suburbs" culture - which I think is shite and wour swap this any day.
#24
Kindergarten In One Of The Settlements Near Vorkuta
General Anaesthesia 2 years ago
Vorkuta, town in Russia. "Vorkuta became one of the most well known Gulags, it gained a reputation of being one of the worst in the Soviet Union. About 2 Million Prisoners had gone to Vorkutlag from 1932 until the closure in 1962, the amount of deaths in the camp were estimated to be 200,000" - Wikipedia
KM 2 years ago (edited)
I grew up in that region. Vorkuta was a very rich mining city with people from all over USSR moving there for work. When USSR fell the mines started to slowly close down and nowadays the town is quickly getting more and more desolate, there's pretty much nothing else to do there, it is located well north of the Arctic circle. Unlike some other towns and villages in the Russian north Vorkuta was founded in mid XX century as a mining town, so it doesn't really have ingenious population. Young people are leaving for bigger (and warmer) cities and crime rates are unfortunately rising. It still has it's charm and slowly getting popular as a tourist destination both as a (half) abandoned town and a starting point for nature enthusiasts. Here's a different photo from the town by a local photographer https://avatars.dzeninfra.ru/get-zen_doc/1584893/pub_5f9d525049505f6811cb351f_5f9d5752b09e797cebee88d4/scale_1200
RachAgainstTheMachine 2 years ago
Thanks for the insight. I always appreciate hearing from someone who knows the region.
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Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Looks like they tried to make it nice for kids with the resources available
Lola Rogers 2 years ago
Yeah, I think it's kind of lovely. A little garden box, a playhouse and swing, green grass. Seems nice.
Load More Replies... Lara Verne 2 years ago
Given the condition of the building in the background, I thought this place might be abandoned, but I see pictures on the sidewalk, it looks like chalk drawings.
#25
Early Powerline Setups - When Thousands Of Cables Filled The Sky
Renno Lillemets 2 years ago
Yeah. First pic is Stockholm Sweden if im not mistaken.
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Alicia Kessinger Bader 2 years ago
Then came a great blizzard which toppled almost everything & "they" decided to bury them instead.
wintermute 2 years ago (edited)
First picture is Stockholm's old telephone tower. Torn down in 53. Forgive me for saying this but there is something majestic about it. Sat on top of the department store, NK.
#26
Brazil
Josh Jensen 2 years ago
I hope someone found the pot of gold at the end of that rainbow and got the frig outta there!
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
Why does that look like a house of cards that will fall apart at any moment, crushing people to death?
#27
View From My Hotel In Downtown Naples, Italy
User# 6 2 years ago
"Vedi Napoli e poi muori" used to mean after seeing Naples you will never see anything more beautiful, until your dying day. Nowadays, not so much.
Beans 2 years ago (edited)
This is kind of misleading. There are ugly/ industrial / poor parts to every city. You get a hotel in those areas and that's what it looks like. I got an AirBNB here and the view was beautiful. https://casa-olga.hotels-amalfi.com/en/#bkl
Charles Rogers 2 years ago
Most disgusting town in all of Italy. Only place in Italy I've ever felt unsafe.
Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
I'd ask, "Napoli, what happened to you?" but I know that answer. We did. We happened...
#28
Sigh... Parking Lots
Amy T 2 years ago
Right, because America has been the only example of the exact, same situation on here.
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Lara Verne 2 years ago
Who needs so many parking lots, is there anything interesting in that area?
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
What is wrong with a single parking garage? You can still be car centric and not spread the parking lots over such a wide area.
#29
A Normal Day In Kowloon 20 Years Ago
Cloudberry 2 years ago
Remember landing and taking off there, in 1998, being able to look in through the windows if the residential skyscraper apartments (from the plane). The runway was a long narrow jetty! Scary in deed!
Spanish Cat 2 years ago
I'm bothered less by the ugly signs than by the bloody airplane 10m above them
#30
State University Of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Malfar 2 years ago
Brutalism. Love it or hate it, no third option. I kinda live it when there's not too much of it.
GB 2 years ago
I love Brutalist architecture, but this is not an attractive example of it.
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Alondra Johnson 2 years ago
Your comments on this article are straight up nasty.
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Neon District In The Lahore Walled City
Tiramisu 2 years ago
Lahore is a very old city, perhaps “walled” means that it has a wall around it like other old cities did
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iidentifyasanambulane(wee/woo) 2 years ago (edited)
I have lived in lahore and the walled city is not all like this. there is a park which takes up 40% of the total area and some streets are wide with trees
Marco Richter 2 years ago
I've seen other pictures of Lahore Walled City that looked way less dystopian
Jeremy Crocker 2 years ago
This looks like it was taken during the day, the buildings above the alley look to be catching sun light.
#32
Imagine Using This Picture To Advertise Your City
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Did the building go up before or after the freeway though? I can't comment on LA but there are some fairly major highways here that had no homes near them 20 years ago, but now they're building housing estates up to the highway boundaries. If someone chooses to develop the land and people buy the houses you can't blame the highway since it already existed.
Milan 2 years ago (edited)
LA is one of the few big cities where buildings not goes up but take huge lands, because (almost) everybody wants to live in a house.
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Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
As someone who's had the distinct displeasure of driving on this death trap when it was much busier than this, this photo should be much higher up this list ..
RAVEN Howard 2 years ago
I drive this horrid thing everyday... and no, the houses and buildings were there first... they build through neighborhoods... its why LA has no 'feeder' streets along the highways... and the 405 rarely looks like that either... maybe during Covid... its always packed... but its not the worst in LA
Mother of Giants 2 years ago
I learned to drive on this freeway...30 years ago...It wasn't this wide back then, but it was still a nightmare to navigate as a new driver. It's worse now. This is actually super-light traffic. Rush hour traffic would be creeping along at 5mph, bumper to bumper, for miles and miles. Up until maybe 10 years ago, it was only 8 lanes wide, (4 lanes north, 4 lanes south), and the houses and buildings were not right up against it. When the city expanded it to 12 lanes wide, (6 north, 6 south), it took over a lot of that ground. Now they have huge cement block walls as sound barriers to keep the highway noise out of the neighborhoods. And even with the sound barriers, if you live within a mile of any L.A. freeway, you can always hear the low hum of cars.
#33
Slums In Jakarta, Indonesia
The Greatest JMS W Cool Animation 2 years ago
Didn't expect for Jakarta to look like this, I thought it's a great and beautiful country (I even live in Indonesia)
Lauren S 2 years ago
I imagine it is a great and beautiful country. You can probably find a less than pretty part in most places if you look hard enough. Just like you’re likely to find beauty in all these places.
Load More Replies... Jeremy Crocker 2 years ago
At least they aren't throwing their garbage over the fence like in some of the other places on this list.
User# 6 2 years ago
That'll solve itself. Jakarta is sinking at an alarming rate and probably will be gone in a century or so.
Zakaria bin Haris 2 years ago
Nah, we just gonna make it a floating city when the s**t hit the fan.
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Gary, Indiana
Garth 2 years ago
Gary Indiana Gary Indiana Gary Indiana that's the town that knew me when.. -The Music Man
OnlyMe 2 years ago
I know a cat called Gary. Very cute. This place? Not so much.
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Rob Chapman 2 years ago
Gary , Indiana. A perfect example of what happens when a city's primary industry moves overseas,, In 1970, nearly 1/3 of the city's population worked for U.S. Steel. By 1990, 25,000 had lost their jobs. Over the last 30 years, the population has declined by over 30%, from 100,000 in 1990, to 69,000 in 2020.
Kimbowa 2 years ago
I guess I’ll be the one to mention that Michael Jackson was born in Gary Indiana. If that matters to anyone anymore I don’t know.
David Evans 2 years ago
Another pedophile from Gary Indiana... Only more famous and rich to cover it up.
Load More Replies... Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 2 years ago
Chicago is a very dangerous city, but as I go through it driving East I get more and more anxious that I still have to get through Gary.
Richard Graham 2 years ago
Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary, Indiana Let me say it once again Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana That's the town that "knew me when" Now if you'd like to have a logical explanation How I happened on this elegant syncopation I will say without a moment of hesitation There is just one place That can light my face Gary, Indiana Gary Indiana Not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York, or Rome, but Gary, Indiana Gary, Indiana Gary Indiana My home sweet home
#35
Real Estate Boom In Newtown, India
Trinity 2 years ago
Yeah, it's bad. Did you know breathing in the air in New Delhi for a day is the equivalent of smoking 100 cigarettes? That's how bad the pollution is...
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Mmmmmmm soup air. Everybody breathe in a lovely helping of cancer! And yes, I know other countries (including my own, I live in Phoenix) are just as bad. This isn't a judgement call on the average people living here.
Laurel Ashley 2 years ago
The air quality in Phoenix is NOT just as bad. Where are you even getting that? I've been there multiple times, last time in 2021, so not that long ago, and s**t wasn't all hazy and gross like that, lol. And yes, it was during the summer when air quality can be poor.
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Catalin Barbuceanu 2 years ago
Why, you have missed Bucharest. And most of southern Romania. Or eastern...anyway, a huge percent.
Johnnynatfan 2 years ago
This Is most likely smoke from the Canadian wildfires that has been traveling south all summer and making northern US cities skies turn orange.
Laurel Ashley 2 years ago
Huh? It's India, so it's the pollution from the 39 billion people and their 67 billion cars, energy plants, etc. Plus their complete lack of any sort of pollution regulations. Not Canadian fires.
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Mumbai, India In All It’s Glory
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
I want to visit India, but you Pandas told me it was covered in spit. 😔😭
Lisa Myers 2 years ago
Even though I'm a Christian, India is a very holy place. Please go if you have a mind to. I'm sure you'll have a wonderful time! I have read the Bhagavad Gita and other texts, and I find the culture and religion fascinating.
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Can Anyone Confirm If This Is As Bad As It Seems?
Lauren S 2 years ago
Roundaboutception. So wait, is there actually an inner roundabout and then five dots on the road as mini roundabouts? Like I’m expected to circle a painted dot before merging? What exactly is the benefit of that? I can’t picture this working well, yet there it is existing.
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Cate 2 years ago
There is a triple roundabout in St Austell, Cornwall between Truro Road and the bypass. Known locally as the Mevagissey Roundabout. It was relatively new when I was learning to drive in the 1980s, and it still causes me anxiety now, especially in peak tourist season. God only knows how the locals cope with this monstrosity. It looks as if there could be lots of accidents here, especially for cyclists and pedestrians.
#38
Tarlabaşı, One Of The Poorest Neighborhoods In Istanbul
VioletHunter 2 years ago
This would be quite nice if the street were cleaner and cobblestoned.
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
I am quite surprised how clean the streets actually are. This picture is pretty.
Load More Replies... Lara Verne 2 years ago
It doesn't even look so dystopian, it just need some repairs and clean up.
Super Beast 2 years ago
these parts were gentrified unfortunately - a lot of buildings torn down and new ones were built and locals were driven away because they couldnt afford the rent in these new buildings
Shelli Aderman 2 years ago
There’s a beauty in the neighborliness of sharing the laundry lines across buildings…
Richard Graham 2 years ago
Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, oh Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks
#39
Man On Pedestrian Bridge Overlooking Traffic In Lagos, Nigeria. (Photo: Akintunde Akinleye)
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 2 years ago
Can you imagine an emergency vehicle trying to get through
#40
Dystopian Thessaloniki
Kat Hoth 2 years ago
This is NOT what I think of when I think of Greece. I think of ocean views, white walls with blue trim, and pleasant clean ocean breezes. This looks like where Deckard lives, all it needs is the floating noodle shop.
Heather McDonald 2 years ago
You know there are places in Greece not near the water, right?
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They sure don't show THESE pics in anything about Greece I've ever seen! Sad. Humans ruin everything.
#41
Houses Combined With The Wall Next To A Freeway. So Depressing
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Like the LA freeway one, I wonder if the freeway was there first. Can't blame it if people are making the decision to build as close to it as possible.
#42
La, Office Tower
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I find this kinda cool. Sure it's blocky and grey, but they're trying to make it interesting.
VioletHunter 2 years ago
It would be a lot nicer with some friendly colours. Paint the concrete white for example.
Load More Replies... RageMonkey91 2 years ago
I actually like the building itself but not the location... it seems to be in the middle of nowhere
Betsy Ray 2 years ago
That's located in Culver City, part of Los Angeles County. It's in the Hayden Tract, a development of interesting businesses, many with highly creative architecture. Really pretty fabulous and exciting. Culver City was a bedroom community, but it's now home to Sony Pictures and tech industries. Great restaurants and amenities. Still a lot of single family homes.
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What Happens When We Build For Cars Instead Of People
VioletHunter 2 years ago
With a helping hand from lawmakers who created the zoning laws.
Load More Replies... MotherofGuineaPigs 2 years ago (edited)
To be honest - who is going to bike 35 miles each way to work?
CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
Well the rich people who profited from this car based culture don't have to live there.
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
Yep. This is all done to suck money out of communities where the beneficiaries of the suckage don't live.
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Jtheslay (he/them) 2 years ago
I'm sure it's much worse then this now because this was in the late 80s or early 90s because of the types of cars, fast food logos which has drastically changed, and the sears truck and sears is no longer in business. What really sucks is that my generation has to now work even harder to change previous generations mistakes,.I'm not saying everyone in the generations but specifically the people who were and are in power
Lisa Myers 2 years ago
Some people don't stay at home and work alone at a computer while complaining about the world. Count your blessings people! If you don't want to live here then don't. Be Amish. Go live somewhere like the way they did 500 years ago.
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago (edited)
Sure! They're going to lock their poor out and let them suffocate when the daytime temps events hit 135...
Load More Replies... Willy Nilly 2 years ago
So much of our lives (US in particular) wasted in automobiles just driving from one store to another, or miles to work/school. Thanks ancestors, I guess….
#44
Government Housing. São Paulo 🇧🇷
Attila Ángyán 2 years ago
This is actually not that bad, just missing plantation and road surface
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Does government housing mean the same in Brazil as it does here? Essentially that the government owns the properties and rents them cheaply to low income families?
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Marco Richter 2 years ago
looks like barracks. Why not build a nice appartment block and use the remaining space for parks
#45
Dubai
DC 2 years ago
Parts of Dubai are dirty, messy, fücked up and broken. The parts that are clean, organized and intact are also fücked up, because it shows the other extreme of capitalism, the outrageously large and expensive-to-be-expensive stuff all around ... wasteless, it sadly isn't, but tasteless for sure, for surest, even.
#46
Chişinau
varwenea 2 years ago
Yes. It's Soviet era, socialist modernism architecture. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/romanita-tower
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The End Of Post War Dreams. Newcastle, UK
Donglens 2 years ago
Ok, so I want to comment on this. Newcastle is a developed and beautiful city; yes it has run down areas but that happens. Please look at the city centre and view all the development they are doing. Newcastle transformed the Quayside from Urban Hell In the late 80's and early 90's!
#48
When You Want To Look Whimsical, But Hate The Homeless
User# 6 2 years ago (edited)
That designer is one broken coccyx lawsuit away from financial ruin.
Kat Hoth 2 years ago
Architecture against unhoused persons is the epitome of heartlessness. No one sleeps on a public bench because they want to be a bother to you, they sleep on a public bench, in a park, under a bridge, or on the sidewalk literally because they have nowhere to go.
sweetrottenpeaches 2 years ago
Plus housing is a luxury nowadays.. Homelessness is becoming enormous.:(
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#49
Lagos, Nigeria
Shelli Aderman 2 years ago
I can more deeply understand the desire to try and do whatever you can to get out. (I’m thinking the Nigerian prince email scams)…
#50
An Old Church Was Demolished To Make Way For A Real Estate Development Of Apartment Buildings In Shanxi, China
Cate 2 years ago
History has no relevance in some parts of the world. In places such as the Middle East there are amazing deserted villages left to collapse as everyone moves into concrete cities with malls and freeways. UK town planners are often bad at thus as well. They turned a town on Cornwall into a concrete modernist hell hole between 1960 and the 1990s. The crime rates have shot up. When are we going to learn that environments impact on behaviours? If sterile functionality is favoured over beauty and nature, you breed vandalism and disconnectedness.
VioletHunter 2 years ago
The modernist hellholes aren't even functional. The old infrastructures were. Built on a human scale and walkable. Exactly what's described as the 15 minute city now.
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fartdog100 2 years ago
it was built in like 2009 and nine of the members n leaders of the church were arrested bc they built it without permits
Jude Corrigan 2 years ago
It is sad that couldn't preserve it somehow for historical value. But people cannot live in churches, housing a growing population must come first.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
An old church was demolished because it doesn't conform with the rigidly atheistic view of the State.
Living Example 2 years ago
What a terrible end for such a beautiful building. I don't know why it was torn down or what replaced it, but I wouldn't want to have the job of demolishing it. So many times we ignore the historical and architectural value of something and destroy it to make way for whatever a parking lot or ugly building they have in mind.
#51
Miari Texas, One Of Few Remaining Red Light Districts Of Seoul, South Korea
Thom Serveaux 2 years ago
It's a nickname. It seems to come from people comparing it to the brothels in old western movies.
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Mumbai's Water Filtration Plant Not Cleaned Or Upgraded For Last 42 Years. Finally It Got Cleaned Yesterday
#53
Looks Very Welcoming, Who Wouldn't Want To Shop Here
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
I used to live in one of the tower blocks near here (it was in the old opening credits for Coronation Street!). As well as serving as a shopping centre, it also served as a bus station. But it wasn’t a nice place to wander round in the early 90s.
Clown fish 2 years ago
I can see that from my house right now. I hate Salford Precent
Load More Replies... Jude Corrigan 2 years ago
Trust me, you would not want to leave your car there.
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#54
The Ship-Breakers, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Donglens 2 years ago
F*ck me, if you put a pyramid in the background I'd be convinced this was from a history book! What the actual SH!T?!!!
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
They literally break up ships. Demolishing them for scrap.
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Chris Henderson 2 years ago
Well don't you know That's the sound of the men Working on the chain gang That's the sound of the men Working on the chain gang
StrangeOne 2 years ago
This should be higher. Also, apart from what everyone else mentioned, just looking at ships in places where there should be water, and people walking on a empty sea bed is giving me shivers. What if the water starts coming back in.
#55
Partially Collapsed Building, Still Occupied (Cairo Area, Egypt)
Kat Hoth 2 years ago
Still, occupied?!?!?! How could you sleep? I'd be afraid the rest of the building would fall as well.
HungryPanda 2 years ago
Well, if your only other option is the street then I think you could sleep soundly with any roof over your head.
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Residential Area Near Cheonggyecheon Before Its Redevelopment In 2005, Seoul, South Korea
Rob Chapman 2 years ago (edited)
This is not gentrification. Gentrification is what happened in San Francisco and other American cities, where Starbucks and luxury condos replaced local family owned businesses and priced out long term residents. What you see in the picture above is a disease and crime infested slum in South Korea that was removed for the health and safety of everyone. They are not the same.
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Cape Coral, Fl
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
The National Weather Service is talking about the distinct possibility of Category 6 and 7 hurricanes this year. And there was a huge coral bleaching event this week, as the ocean temperature crested 100ºF (38ºC). (Coral reefs slow down ocean waves before they make landfall.) All but 3 homeowner's insurance companies have left Florida, and the remaining 3 likely won't be there next year. But, sure, Florida...do go on about "wokeness" and drag queen story hours and banning books and such.
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RabidChild 2 years ago
And the trees are just now starting to grow in.... This whole area was bulldozed and cleared of vegetation, miles and miles of canals were dredged and the land divided into plots. It was a land developer's wet dream - desolate, empty and governed like one big HOA when founded like 60 years ago.Now, every time a major storm comes through it floods a d needs to be evacuated. With rising sea levels etc it'll probably be underwater permanently in another 40 years and people still flock there building $1m mcmansions right on top of each other. It's the epitome of FL mismanagement and greed.
#58
The View From Your 1 Bed/1bath, 800sq Foot, $850k Condo In Oakland, California
Betsy Ray 2 years ago
Unhoused populations are a major issue in California. Other states add to it by actually sending in busloads of transients. It's a national issue, not a single states'.
Goose of the Ahonkalypse 2 years ago
We're 70 million housing units short in the US because construction slowed down after the 2008 financial crash. Then covid put construction on hold and a lot of building materials have gone up 30 percent. It's bad everywhere right not just Cali. This is a constant topic of discussion in my red state. All the cities are seeing an increase in unhoused groups and its freezing cold here 6 months out of the year.
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#59
Mumbai Roads Are The Perfect Poster Child For Urban Hell. The Existing Small Stretch Of Metro Is The Only Way To Reach Your Destination On Time. The Suburban Trains Are Already Super Crowded And The Passengers Are Forced To Travel In Sub Human Conditions
Katie Bear 2 years ago
Know someone who lived in this city. 3 hours one way by train to get to work. Moved here (Southern Alberta). Says now, "If it's snowing, it takes 15 minutes to drive to work (Too cold to walk)"
#60
This Old Prison Can Be Yours. Jail On Sale
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Seems like an opportunity for a production company/movie studio. Buy it for use as a prison set in movies.
VioletHunter 2 years ago
Would work as either an office building or an apartment complex or both. Put some space for shops on the ground floor too.
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Mabelbabel 2 years ago
There's a hotel in Vilvoorde, Belgium that is a renovated prison. It's very nice (and very quiet because the walls are solid stone)
Tracy Butler 2 years ago
Could always turn it into apartments! https://libertycrestapartments.com/
#61
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jill Bussey 2 years ago
Villa 31, on the other side of the Avenida Libertador tracks, where the upper class landowners live.
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
Looks like the very definition of "living on the wrong side of the tracks"
#62
Baltimore
RageMonkey91 2 years ago
Sad to see those actually cute houses in that condition - somewhere else these would be expensive as hell
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
So why are these boarded up? The red diamond signs on them look like some kind of warning, but I'm not sure what for.
Tiramisu 2 years ago
Abandoned houses. Also, too many crime ridden neighborhoods
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Johnnynatfan 2 years ago
Baltimore is in pretty bad shape except in some small areas. It had a major population decline going from 40 percent of the population of Maryland to now only 10 percent. Those houses used to be beautiful and had brilliant white marble stairs that the owners would clean and polish once a week. The sad thing is a lot of those empty homes are still owned privately and it takes a lot of money and court battles for the city to take them for redevelopment.
#63
Armando De Salles Oliveira Stadium, São Paulo
#64
Marseille Banlieue - The Outskirts Of French Cities Are Known For Colossal Housing Structures
gerard julien 2 years ago
" the outskirts of french cities are known for colossal housing structures " 1/ STEREOTYPE 2/ I 've seen worse . LYON : lyon-64bf7...572287.jpg 
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
WTH is wrong with that? Looks like a VERY nice city, with the MOST unappealing structure being (if you have no appreciation for such things) the ancient amphitheatre!
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#65
Sao Paolo
#66
Oslo’s (Norway) Fanciest Business Looks Like An Industrial Plant In The Middle Of The City
Awkward lady 2 years ago
Not that bad, compared with many others on this list! Clearly taken on a rainy, grey day, but there is a lot of urban space there.
#67
Bike Lane In Street Of Sao Paulo
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
Dude, seriously, dude. this is like timmy coming to scrooge for food and getting only crumbs. Feels like it would have less effort to do it the correct way.
The Greatest JMS W Cool Animation 2 years ago
Wow, you gotta go really straight, or you'll fall or crash to the side
#68
November
VioletHunter 2 years ago
This is silly because you can see it's a nice, green playground in summer. Any place can look depressing in overcast winter weather.
Invisigoth (he/him) 2 years ago
in texas, everything looks better in overcast winter, cuz the grass isn't dying
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ЛеснойКороль(they/he)🇺🇦🇷🇺 2 years ago
As a russian, i will say that this is a bad shot. Actually looks lovely in the summer
Cynthia Carter 2 years ago
Reminds me of Pripyat, Ukraine, the abandoned city near the closed Chernobyl nuclear plant.
#69
Part Of Downtown Edmonton
#70
An Apartment In Hangzhou, China
Rita Benkő 2 years ago (edited)
A perpendicular city and lots of greenery, public transportation, probably the residents can walk to the nearest shop, fast food joint or pharmacy in five minutes. If the elevator works, this is way better than a suburb or gated community, where the nearest shop is fifteen minutes by car, no public transportation and the greenery is just the lawn.
#71
Tel Aviv City Centre (Allenby Street). Each Apartment In This Building Cost Around 1.5m$ Btw (Really)
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
And that would still be better than where they make the Palestinians live.
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Building In Fort Worth, Texas
#74
Sao Paulo Suburbs In 1985
Donglens 2 years ago
Remember when builders had PRIDE in the architecture of their buildings? We have e buildings in the uk that used to be public toilets that look better than everything that's built today! Think about it, a place to SH!T looked better than places to LIVE and WORK these days!!
#75
Lagos, Nigeria
#76
People Live In The Tiny Gap Between Commercial Buildings And The Official Residence Of Thailand's Prime Minister
#77
Deindustrialized Post Soviet Town
ЛеснойКороль(they/he)🇺🇦🇷🇺 2 years ago
If people actually took pics when it was brighter it wouldn’t look this bad
#78
Brownsville, Pennsylvania 2023. Vibes Of Deindustrialization
HungryPanda 2 years ago
If you image search Brownsville,PA, you will see that the name is perfectly suitable.
Gwen LeMay 2 years ago
Take a picture here on a bright summer day, this view is then beautiful!
#79
A Depressing Bus Stop At Jakarta
HungryPanda 2 years ago
It's covered, has lighting, and nice benches. There are far worse bus stops in the world.
The Greatest JMS W Cool Animation 2 years ago
Again? Another ugly thing from Jakarta? Man my expectations are different than I thought
Christine 2 years ago
Not sure when this photo was taken, everything is a lot nicer and modern now. It's a lot safer as well even it's in late evening, staffs are put to help people get around. I live in Jakarta and use public transportation.
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Shantytowns Of Seoul, South Korea In 1960s
#81
At&t Long Lines NYC Building (Windowless) I Dig It Most People Despise It
Mabelbabel 2 years ago
Brutalism school of architecture? It looks very "Cold War Soviet Union' style.
Lauren S 2 years ago
Was there a reason it was windowless? Is there some benefit to that?
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In Cairo City Planners Passed The Level Of Adding More Lanes, Now They Add More Bridges. To The Resident's Surprise, Building Height Limit Codes Don't Apply To Bridges
StrangeOne 2 years ago
There's been times they have collapsed during earthquakes. I'd never want to be driving through them.
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Seoul Birds
HungryPanda 2 years ago
Well if their little lungs can handle the pollution, it can't be too bad..right?
#84
Strange And Ugly House In Slayton, Minnesota
RabidChild 2 years ago
Obviously a fairly newer personal residence. What kind of person consider this design as their ideal? Their dream house? This gives off a serial killer vibe in my mind.
Zac Clarke 2 years ago
My mother grew up in Slayton. It is about as rural as you can get. Odd design yes, rural hellscape, absolutely not.
VioletHunter 2 years ago
Looks like they asked a toddler to draw them in.
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Tacoma, Washington. Beautifully Ugly?
mhoulden 2 years ago
Someone trying to be arty. A quick edit makes it look like this tacoma-64b...1c-png.jpg 
Briana Kessler 2 years ago
It's not the greatest city, but the downtown is cute and fun. This picture is just dark and eerie to be more dramatic than it actually is.
#86
Mumbai , India Population 21million
Shelli Aderman 2 years ago
In comparison, NYC, inclusive of Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, and States Island is 8 million+ people…
#87
Mina The City Of Tents, Near The City Of Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Tiramisu 2 years ago (edited)
Okay, we need to clear this up. Those units are for air conditioning. Also, no one lives here year round, and everything is shut down/turned off when not in use. It is used during the days of Hajj, Islamic pilgrimage to Makkah, where the pilgrims must spend a certain amount of nights here in Mina as part of the pilgrimage rituals. Millions of pilgrims come each year, with the numbers only now starting to return to prepandemic figures. All those people need a place to stay in the boundaries of the Mina area, that’s the reason for tight configuration.
kissmychakram 2 years ago
Thanks for adding context - which is always valuable!
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Phillip Moderow 2 years ago
Not air conditioners, evaporative coolers. Swamp coolers, if you must.
#88
Photos I Took In NYC Yesterday
Katie Bear 2 years ago (edited)
It could also be New York wildfires The WHOLE CONTINENT is on fire
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what day was yesterday, because if it was July 2023 that is wildfire smoke from Canada
I_Imperfect_I 2 years ago
This city is alot more cleaned up than I expected it to be, so congrats on that I guess.
Nathan Pogorzala 2 years ago
Rated cleanest large city in thew world. I guess that isn't saying much. This photo is from the Canadian Wildfires.
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Concrete Mess In New England
Vera Diblikova 2 years ago
It is, was a were haunting. Classical brutalismus.
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AreYouGoingToEatThatPickle? 2 years ago
Brutalist Architecture. I'm sure a full view is a little less unpleasant.
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What do you think ?
The Phantom Stranger 2 years ago
I understand the point this article was trying to make, but I feel like a lot of these photos were deceptively framed. Some were taken in the middle of winter to make the trees look dead and the grass stunted. Some used light filters to make everything look more dirty and gray than it probably is, and some of them were shot at weird angles that give a skewed perspective while excluding the background that might give context. The brown skies in the photos of NYC are not from industrial pollution, but from smoke from the Canadian wildfires drifting south. Not saying there is not a lot of ugliness in the world, but there is great beauty too, and if all you look for is the bad, then of course you are going to be depressed about it.
Tiramisu 2 years ago
Well this was a depressing way to start my day. Surprised Karachi isn’t here, it’s veeeeery similar to Mumbai.
Adam Jones 2 years ago
Just looked up Karachi. Yeah, the traffic is unbelievable in some of the shots.
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JL 2 years ago
The next time BP posts an article bashing US suburban living, I'll remember this list.
The Phantom Stranger 2 years ago
I had the same thought as I was reading these. Only thing that surprised me was how few of these sites are actually in the US. Not like BP to pass up a chance to do some zero-perspective America bashing!
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iidentifyasanambulane(wee/woo) 2 years ago
not 7, 8 billion people on the planet and growing
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The Phantom Stranger 2 years ago
I understand the point this article was trying to make, but I feel like a lot of these photos were deceptively framed. Some were taken in the middle of winter to make the trees look dead and the grass stunted. Some used light filters to make everything look more dirty and gray than it probably is, and some of them were shot at weird angles that give a skewed perspective while excluding the background that might give context. The brown skies in the photos of NYC are not from industrial pollution, but from smoke from the Canadian wildfires drifting south. Not saying there is not a lot of ugliness in the world, but there is great beauty too, and if all you look for is the bad, then of course you are going to be depressed about it.
Tiramisu 2 years ago
Well this was a depressing way to start my day. Surprised Karachi isn’t here, it’s veeeeery similar to Mumbai.
Adam Jones 2 years ago
Just looked up Karachi. Yeah, the traffic is unbelievable in some of the shots.
Load More Replies... JL 2 years ago
The next time BP posts an article bashing US suburban living, I'll remember this list.
The Phantom Stranger 2 years ago
I had the same thought as I was reading these. Only thing that surprised me was how few of these sites are actually in the US. Not like BP to pass up a chance to do some zero-perspective America bashing!
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not 7, 8 billion people on the planet and growing
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