35 Dystopic Examples Of ‘Urban Hell’ (New Pics)

That just sucks, except if you have a cardboard box or something thick and solid to cover the windows

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.

I was confused at what's I'm looking at until I read the title, insane

Holy moly, I've never seen that many vehicles on a road before O_o

Not a single green droplet of colour....

"Under the bridge downtown.. is where I drew some blood"

The vastness is astonishing

why even bother to hang up another sign? No one will read them ever

Well, that bridge is the most important transport link between Europe and Asia, no wonder it's busy.

"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.

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

It's as if some nasty alien ship landed.

We are clearly a infection on the Earth

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.

Can you imagine an elevator being out of order ?

Beautiful sky and greenery, the trash tho...

They still got a beach, water and trees. Not so bad.

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.

I guess they didn't want to move when the freeway was being built

This looks like something straight out of a game

Reminds me of the robot fighting games from the film A.I.

Tokyo is both fascinating and nightmarish. I would really like to visit this city, but living there must be hell.

I find it cool, tbh. A great photo.

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

Phone lines...

Somewhere, over the rainbow... it's even grayer.

"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.

How to ruin a perfectly good city, American style.

This gives me "Sleeping Dogs" video game vibe.

Brutalism. Love it or hate it, no third option. I kinda live it when there's not too much of it.

Blade Runner vibes

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.

Didn't expect for Jakarta to look like this, I thought it's a great and beautiful country (I even live in Indonesia)

Gary Indiana, armpit of the midwest

The air quality . . .

Its*

What if....our roundabout.... Had like 5 roundabouts

This would be quite nice if the street were cleaner and cobblestoned.

Can you imagine an emergency vehicle trying to get through

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.

I'd just build a sound proof wall and plant bushes and trees.

I find this kinda cool. Sure it's blocky and grey, but they're trying to make it interesting.

Brainwashing at it's best. The USA car lobby did this.

This is actually not that bad, just missing plantation and road surface

everything about Dubai was a mistake

Romanita Tower in Moldova, a Soviet era, socialist modernism architecture https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/romanita-tower

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!

That designer is one broken coccyx lawsuit away from financial ruin.

The trash is so sad.

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.

I'm confused. Is it in Texas or Seoul?

Nightmarish.

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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.

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?!!!

Still, occupied?!?!?! How could you sleep? I'd be afraid the rest of the building would fall as well.

Redevelopment = Gentrification and displacement of the poor. 😕

Also gonna go buh-bye sometime in the not-so-distant future

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'.

When you think your daily commute is bad ...

Seems like an opportunity for a production company/movie studio. Buy it for use as a prison set in movies.

La villa 31, del otro lado de las vías avenida Libertador, donde vive la clase alta terrateniente.

Sad to see those actually cute houses in that condition - somewhere else these would be expensive as hell

Built in 1961

That seems better than suburban sprawl outside the city center

This is beautiful