People In This Online Group Shared 30 Pics Of Urban Hell That Don’t Look Real But Sadly Are (New Pics)

That's heartbreaking

Looks like a dystopian video game.

I live in Japan and have seen dense, but this is just depressing

Bladerunner in the daytime

I spent a few weeks living in one of these "apartments" in the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong and can attest to how awful it would be to live in one of these full time. They're approximately 2.5msq, just enough room for a small bed and tiny fridge cuz the rest of the space is taken up by the bathroom, which is a toilet, shower, sink combo behind a sliding glass door. I didn't bother counting how many apartments were on my floor cuz I was busy squeezing through the narrow hallways filled with dressers and storage tubs owned by other residents since there's no space inside. Luckily, Hong Kong was hot and muggy in January, during my visit. So, I can only imagine how "lovely" these spaces are in the summer. 😬

someones gotta build some ziplines

This hurts.

You don't want the elevator maintenance crew to slack here

28 years ago we went to China to adopt our daughter. We saw huge decaying apartment buildings everywhere. The streets were jammed with humans. No wonder COVID spread so fast there.

They didn't knock down the pyramids or other ancient artifacts to build a city for people. Pollution covers many huge cities around the world.

*facepalm*

And then they'll all arrive on their private jets and tell us that cow farts are killing the planet so we need to eat bugs.

I presume from the caption that they're going to tear it down again after the conference. I mean it couldn't possibly be that they were thinking of building a highway anyway, right? No, they're definitely just building it for a 2 week conference.

these people can go fcuck themselves

How do you spell "Idiots" . . . ?

Makes perfect sense. /s

I built a sim city just like this once.

Nothing a lick of paint wouldn't fix. This is a joke by the way.

I hope the engineers who designed it know what they are doing.

This makes it easier to find a doctor there than here for me and I can't speak Arabic.

Now you see it, now you don't.

This is a township….. where black people lived during apartheid ( and now)

Is there a river under all that garbage?

For those not in the US, those blue things around that block are unhoused (homeless) tent encampments. I think this is Phoenix

Matisse is rolling in his grave.

Less trees, more heat.

Ginza. Some of the priciest sq footage on the planet

Quite honestly, you get what you pay for.

We have been looking out into green fields for decades. The land owner got zoning approval for a solar farm and all the neighbours are rioting and signing petitions against it and I don’t understand why. I am ecstatic. Solar farm! No pollution, no traffic, no noise, no smells, no obstructed sunlight. We are so lucky. Could have been a pig farm, or a whole new quarter like other side of the town.

That's not a balcony, it's an additional room.

Calcutta was once the pride of India?

🎶 Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes made of ticky-tacky...🎶

Plus an almost completely sealed-off ground. I'm none too fond of manicured golf lawns, but depression inducing grey concrete is definitely worse. It makes the surrounding place unneccessarily hot, too, and one heavy downpour will make flood the streets, because the water has no place to go.

When people are so brainwashed by their religious beliefs and the promise of happiness in an afterlife, that the quality of the here and now of real existence does not matter.

It's probably good that they've lowered the road like this to reduce noise

Those who live by the car will die by the car.

Work is being done at this location, due to be complete in late 2024, to add windows and access to natural light.

Obviously Brazil has no blind people - probably due to the fact they walk in the road and get run over.

Brutal stuff with its cement just doesn’t age well and is hard to repair

There will be no traffic. (If it will ever get built)

This is Eggsy's apartment from Kingsman!

You pay paradise and put up a parking lot.

Reminds me of The Flatiron in New York.

It could use some trees. But other than that, I've seen worse.

Only a matter of time before the US starts to get that way. We are so over populated

Gotta have that parking

This is nothing. When we were in China, we awoke in the morning and could not see the building across the street through the smog.

Because there are so many fun things to do in the desert.

Looks like the evil lair of some Bond villan.

Reminds me of the Harkonnen homeworld from the original Dune film

In fairness, they probably had to erect a lot of buildings quickly after the war. In unfairness, it would probably still have looked this way if they hadn't.

Ah, open the window and smell the fresh air.

And what´s Hdi?

I bet you Bruce Wayne would have bought one of these apartments - "Albert, let's start digging".

What is the building that resembles a speech bubble?

This is a marketplace, not a residential area. Yellow cars are taxis, the umbrellas shade the produce stalls/sellers

My guess is the owner refused to sell up when the road system was built.