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“$58 Billion Ghost City”: 50 Shocking ‘Urban Hell’ Photos That Expose The Price Of Modern Life (New Pics)
Comfort, better education, and jobs, among other things, draw people to cities. The pull is so strong that more than half of the world’s population already lives in urban environments. But the comforts and conveniences of the cities don’t come without a price. Pollution, biodiversity loss, rising crime rates, and living costs are just a few things that are changing our planet for the worse.
Urbanization has become a man-made hell that we now have to live in, and to prove it even further, we compiled a list of pictures from the Urban Hell subreddit that expose the price of modern life. To find them, all you have to do is scroll down.
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#1
Cleaning Up A Canal In Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ramchandra canal in Mohammadpur, Dhaka, which has been cleaned up and restored in 72 hours as part of ongoing efforts to clean up revitalise Bangladeshi canals. Led by NGOs with sponsorship from a bank and support from the government and the city corporation. Hopefully we can keep it this way!
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#2
Spotted In Barcelona
Virgil Blue 3 months ago
In Amsterdam, there were streets that were empty outside of vacation seasons according to my niece who lives there.
Thay Cavalcante 3 months ago
The gold and silver you used for your economical development was the sacred land of my latin American brothers, so
#3
Reflection Of Inequalities
#4
Boston Before And After The Highway Was Moved Underground In 2003
#5
Urban Hell Reversal
Beijing’s Liangma River went from a dry, cracked canal in the late ’90s to a green, thriving part of the city by 2025. Clean water, tree-lined walkways, and modern buildings from city planning.
Rich Black 3 months ago
an AI image detection app says this is human, and not manipulated. bravo.
#6
Rich vs. Poor In Buenos Aires, Argentina
Borg 3 months ago
I was in South America for 3 weeks as a teen - both in Rio (pictured above) and Buenos Aires. It was unreal to see with my own eyes the massive difference between rich and poor. People either had everything - or nothing.
David 3 months ago
thats why they went for a radical 3rd party route that rejected the traditional Conservative and Democratic Socialist parties that both ran the country into the ground for decades.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 3 months ago
to be fair, you can see this in . . . 1 - the USA 2 - mexico 3 - China 4 - Japan 5 - Africa probably not as much in england or canada
Matthew Barabas 3 months ago
i dont think thats rich vs poor. its more like middle class vs poor. the rich would have far larger spaces between houses.
Sly Schlang 2 months ago
This isn' even the rich/poor divide. It's the dying middle class next to the poor who at least have a roof
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#7
My View From My Hotel In Manila, Philippines
patricia patricia 2 months ago (edited)
I can imagine the maddening noise and buzzing of al those machines working at the same time while I'm trying to sleep, and I feel like k*****g myself.
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Lil be lil 3 months ago (edited)
At least you can take a short cut to your apartment. Just climb the wall! / j 😕
#8
Western World's E-Waste In Ghana
Peeka_Mimi 3 months ago
I always donate my electronics to women's shelters. Also there is recycling options available to refurbish them. No excuse for this.
Mark Howell 3 months ago
As an IT manager with my former employer, I directed all our old PC's to a charity. They wiped them, re-installed a free O/S and apps and sent them to charities in the third world. Thus giving impoverished communities access to the world
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Mark Karol-Chik 3 months ago
I can not stand how the west uses poorer parts of the world as their s******g ground.
#9
South Korea's Capital Looks Like It Has No Seoul
Papa 3 months ago
I feel sure the "grammar police" will see it for was intended, and appreciate it.
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George Costanza 3 months ago
Having been to Seoul I disagree strongly. It's a very vibrant city with tons to do, great parks, great transportation. What did you expect it to look like?
Rich Black 3 months ago
they are 3 minutes away from annihilation if North Korea decides to launch a missile. The residents of Seoul are brave and optimistic.
#10
North Korean Government-Built Countryside Homes
Rows upon endless rows of identical bland and monotonous, perfectly symmetrical houses in a newly opened countryside residential complex in North Korea.
Pittsburgh rare 3 months ago (edited)
Almost as dystopian as your government not providing decent and affordable housing and leaving you dealing with an impossible market that forces people to live in inhuman conditions. This is in no way a defense of the N. Korean regime, but a reflection on the western countries housing crisis.
iseefractals 3 months ago
And why is that exactly? California, the richest, most heavily taxed and "progressive" state in the country has 11% of the US population, but contains 25% of the total US homeless population....and it's because of bureaucratic nonsense that either directly prevents new housing from being built (certain area's allow ANYONE to block build if they "feel" it detracts from their view, an abandoned movie theater built in the 1970s was designated a historical landmark to block apartment build and on and on) OR regulations that are so wildly expensive that builder simply back out. Rent control initiatives that don't even keep pace with inflation create slumlord and deter new building projects. The twin cities in Minnesota have inadvertently proved this, with one adopting those rent control measures, while the other just allowed for new builds. Rent control city is counterintuitively more expensive, while prices have cratered from the high by 40% in the other where they seek to meet demand.
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Bruce Mardle 3 months ago
Thanks, I was trying to remember the name of that film!
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Janelle Collard 3 months ago
Ok, *there's* a place you don't want to come home drunk! All the houses look the same!
Bruce Mardle 3 months ago
Am I cynical for thinking these are probably homes for relatively privileged people?
Emily Ly 3 months ago
Oh they absolutely are. Maybe not like top government officials, but definitely for the "better off" in North Korea.
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The Majestic Opossum 3 months ago
That looks like most of the new subdivisions that have taken over the farmland and woodlands in my town in the US 😖
Grm Moore 3 months ago
Where is a blade of grass? No green anywhere. No gardens? Home grown veg?
Maartje 3 months ago
This is more shocking to me than a lot of the previous pictures. I wonder what that says about me.
Papa 3 months ago
I'm not an expert, but I believe that is not a picture, but a computer rendering. This may not even actually exist.
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#11
Nad Al Sheba Neighborhood In Dubai, UAE
Rich Black 3 months ago
i live in the pink section. 7th row, 33rd house on the right. Not the old section . . . we're in the new section.
Wolfgang Bonow 3 months ago
I would rather live in this kind of development than in a 10 or +20 stories appartement silo.
#12
Cages In Chongqing, China
Rich Black 3 months ago
those are not "cages". residents enclose their balconies with wire mesh to deter thieves. look at all the free laundry for the taking, if there was no barrier.
Matthew Barabas 3 months ago
less cages and more so people dont fall out. come on, you know this.
#13
A Stunning Example Of Cable Management Spotted In Bangladesh
Rich Black 3 months ago
i love the security camera. this is evidently to deter theft of cable and electrical service?
PataSata 3 months ago
There's a book, the title of it being "Ábel a rengetegben" in Hungarian. "Ábel" is a boy's name and "rengeteg" in this case meaning "big dense forest", used seldom novadays. "Rengeteg" also means "great many" or "plethora" and similar. So there's a word play that applies to this image. "Kábel a rengetegben", "kábel" meaning "cable". So, "Cable in the forest (of cables)".
David Morgan 3 months ago
Holy moly, don't have a pacemaker and walk anywhere near that, the magnetic field from all the loops must be absurd...
joseph legatt 3 months ago
There is a similar situation in Vietnam. I presume this is caused by the same issues. Here is an excellent video explaining why this happens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfznhwFGKy8
#14
Amsterdam, Nl 🇳🇱
Nika Strokappe 3 months ago
This is not how Amsterdam usually looks. Something must have happened
Rich Black 3 months ago
Google sez this is Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. Not a 3rd world nation. D***s may be involved . . .
#15
Hong Kong In 1964 And Now
Rich Black 3 months ago
clearly people would rather live in HK, rather than mainland china. Beijing has a way to fix all that, I suppose . . .
#16
Modernizing City Blocks In Austria (2019 And 2023)
Rich Black 3 months ago
let's be charitable and theorize that 150 year old buildings may have had underlying structural weaknesses and been prone to fire?
#17
Dubai Partition Room For Rent $1,000 Month
Monica G 1 month ago
I guess you only sleep and shower there. Better than a crowded dormitory with no privacy, for workers.
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Nika Strokappe 3 months ago
It seems really high, so why not put the bed up and have extra space underneath
#18
Delhi
Lil be lil 3 months ago
Don't want to be in the middle of that! How would you even get out!!????
#19
Haiti - 10 Years After Earthquake. Photo By Paolo Woods
Lil be lil 3 months ago
Well the Haitians will take care of that! With paint and plantings! It's a start.
Slapdash1 3 months ago
To be fair, it seems like they couldn't take care of a wet dream
Load More Replies... Rich Black 3 months ago
see teh film "city of god", about brazil, if you enjoy this sort of thing.
#20
Kathmandu Is The Most Polluted City In The World Right Now According To AQI
Rich Black 3 months ago
incorrect. it's not even in the top 10. 7 of the 10 are in india. here's a link: https://www.bing.com/search?q=top+10+most+polluted+cities+in+the+world&form=ANNTH1&refig=68e69fb3da7d48de89a74786e3fd9c61&pc=HCTS&pq=what+are+the+10+most+polluted+cities&pqlth=36&assgl=40&sgcn=top+10+most+polluted+cities+in+the+world&qs=NM&sgtpv=NM&smvpcn=0&swbcn=8&sctcn=0&sc=8-36&sp=1&ghc=0&cvid=68e69fb3da7d48de89a74786e3fd9c61&clckatsg=1&hsmssg=0
#21
New Delhi Cows
Paul C. 3 months ago
Meanwhile the Indian government spent 130bn rupees ($1.55bn) this year on it's space programme!
Matthew Barabas 3 months ago
which is an extremely low amount of money. they spend 86 billion (USD) on their military, for example.
Load More Replies... GREYNOOK 3 months ago
you should see our world where i live, most population have goats raised at their houses, but since we are in a desert like place, goats are left to loiter, they eat cardboards, cement bags, sometimes plastic bags and all that s**t they can sniff, smells good and eat. when they get slaughtered, normal goats will have green stuff coming out of their stomach etc, but to us, its quite the opposite 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️😫😫😫😥😥😥
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World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard In Kuwait
YakFactory 3 months ago
Imagine a fire in there. The smell and the smoke and the air pollution. I'm guessing it could burn for years.
GREYNOOK 3 months ago
if only some one could take them all and shred them to make some monies 😳
Lil be lil 3 months ago
A Detroit artist made some art with old tires. Also could they be used to make housing you would have to make it fire proof though of course.
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#23
Anti-Homeless Architecture, USA/UK
Fixing a problem with a problem.
Pittsburgh rare 3 months ago
This is cheaper than actually dealing with homelessness. It also requires less thinking, which is something politicians aren't very prone to
Max Robitzsch 3 months ago
Most of their voters don't think either, so that leads to a negative feedback loop.
Load More Replies... Digital Fantasy 3 months ago
Ah they can't sleep on the benches anymore? Guess that means they'll go home and sleep in their comfy beds instead. Problem solved with pure logic.
iseefractals 3 months ago
The cost to "end" homelessness would be $20 billion per year, levied as a tax applicable to EVERYONE over the age of 18, this would come out to $84 per person per year, or $0.23 per person per day. That's the bar to clear, advocate that YOU should absorb the cost through a tax hike. Except the problem is that 40 odd percent of homeless people are mentally ill, addicts or some combination of the two. We've already seen Micro-home communities pop up in places like california....and documentaries have shown homeless people explaining why they avoid them....because being granted access includes being searched to ensure that "residents" don't have d***s or weapons....because that's a legal requirement, because if violence happens to occur, then the organization who failed to properly screen becomes liable. We need public institutions to come back, we need to compel mental illness being properly medicated, and we need public d**g treatment centers to be built and funded if to "solve" this.
Pagan squirrel 3 months ago
Over 1,500 homeless people died in the UK last year. In some countries they help homeless people, in other countries they criminalise them.
Rich Black 3 months ago
build more overnight homeless shelters if they are needed. don't surrender every square inch of public space to squatters and addicts.
#24
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Brandi VanSteenwyk 3 months ago
Kills me to think about how much money was spent to host the Olympics there in Rio, within sight of such blight and need. Talk about a giant middle finger to those suffering.
#25
Apartment Buildings In Chongqing, China
Janelle Collard 3 months ago
Hope their building standards take earthquakes into consideration.
Krd 3 months ago
If I remember correctly they actually do account pretty well for earthquakes, its fires that are the real hazard.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 3 months ago
residents probably consider this an upgrade. and there is street level shopping.
#26
They Replaced A Masterpiece With A Spreadsheet
The Majestic Opossum 3 months ago
While this is sadly true, it's not an accurate representation of the entire city. Much of Chicago's beautiful architecture has been preserved and restored over the years. And some of the modern structures are beautiful and awe inspiring in their own right.
Vidas Zlioba 3 months ago
Point of information: those buildings were designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, so like them or not . . . they're not going away.
Rich Black 3 months ago
this building housed several federal agencies - not state or municipal. it was torn down during the LBJ administration in 1965 because the government needed more space for agency expansion.
Matthew Barabas 3 months ago
that building clearly wasnt large enough to serve the city, so it was replaced.
Pittsburgh rare 3 months ago
Chicago. They demolished that beauty in 1965
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Tyumen, Russia. It Looks Like A Montage, But It Isn't
Matthew Barabas 3 months ago
standardsized housing remains my favorite. and hey, its more space than my own house.
#28
Kolkata, India
Tyranamar Seuss 3 months ago
What's up with the cows just loitering about in the litter? I thought they were sacred. Shouldn't they be being kept in nice green fields?
Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
You're not supposed to move the cows. If they wander there, they wander there.
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Rich Black 3 months ago
this is what happens when you turn livestock into sacred animals. people go hungry and the animals roam everywhere.
Mahiera Etsuhae 3 months ago
Upvote for accuracy, not because I like the idea.
Load More Replies... GREYNOOK 3 months ago
yeah, HOLY COWS rather been given holiness treatment, good food, they loiter around eating trash, how can they be made HOLY then 🙄🤦♂️
#29
Bridge Built Over A 17th Century Castle Ruins
📍Kajaani, Finland
Rich Black 3 months ago
i believe the castle may have been ruined by regular flooding. hope they built the new bridge high enough to solve for this.
Matthew Barabas 3 months ago
pretty good. i think they even incorporated the ruins to be part of the bridge structure.
#30
Aerial View Of São Paulo, The Most Populous City In The Americas With 22 Million Inhabitants
#31
Novi Beograd
PeePeePooPoo 3 months ago
I don't think this is urban hell because you have parks and playgrounds between buildings, as well as schools, kindergardens, shops etc...
#32
Inequality In Manila
Joshua Santiago 3 months ago
Im sure there's a budget for this somewhere, prolly going to someone's pocket unto their kids lavish expense.
#33
Manaus, Brazil
Snazzy Smurf 3 months ago
I hope they leave it alone, which is wishful thinking.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 3 months ago
lets applaud the effort to preserve green space in an urban environment.
#34
China's 50 Lane Traffic, G4 Expressway
Ace 3 months ago
It's only a few lanes just before that part as well. It's a toll booth, is all.
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Rich Black 3 months ago
this is the nation that's going to conquer the world? as soon as they find available parking spaces, maybe.
#35
Really .. What Were They Thinking?
Digital Fantasy 3 months ago
Building was in terrible shape. Might look beautiful on the outside, but this was a worn down 19th century place, built with poor quality materials to begin with.
Rich Black 3 months ago
it was demolished in 1938 to make way for a convention hall for the "swiss national fair". really.
Matthew Barabas 3 months ago
obviously, it couldnt be used as a convention center, and there was enough demand for one to replace this inefficent castle house with a more efficent building.
#36
Taj Mahal, India
#37
Egypt’s New Administrative Capital – A $58 Billion Ghost City
Planned as a solution to Cairo’s congestion, the NAC aims to house government buildings, embassies, and millions of residents. The trip itself was an experience—an hour-long Uber ride from Cairo, passing through three security checkpoints before entering. Security presence was unmistakable: police, military patrols, and constant surveillance. Yet, aside from them and a few gardeners, the city felt almost deserted.
However, despite its scale, the NAC raises concerns about affordability, social impact, and whether it will truly alleviate Cairo’s urban pressures or remain a prestige project benefiting a select few.
Urbanist and architect Yasser Elsheshtawy captures this sentiment well.
Rich Black 3 months ago
The USA sends about $1.5 billion in foreign aid to Egypt annually. This is how they're spending it ????
#38
Jakarta Traffic 🇮🇩
Rich Black 3 months ago
i don't think driving a tesla in the USA is going to make much difference in the long term.
#39
Alexandria, Egypt
#40
Malé, Capital Of The Maldives
Eliza 3 months ago
This doesn't like like hell to me at all. It's very built up, but the buildings appear structural sound and the people in them have access to all the amenities of modern life and great views to boot. It's practically paradise. To me urban hell is slums with limited access to basic things like clean water and toilets.
turk 3 months ago
Well, it's hell if you want a beer. Can't even get one in the airport. But it's all you can drink on the resort islands. Can't let religion get in the way of profit.
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Heffalump 3 months ago
It's not sinking, the sea level is rising. And tbh that's not a large capital city, and what do you think the capital city of a nation of small islands is going to look like?
Load More Replies... Lil be lil 3 months ago
There is green spaces and waterfront that all look pretty clean would not be a bad place to live!
#41
A Graffiti Piece Across 50 Buildings In Cairo, By El Seed
Lil be lil 3 months ago
Great improvement for the area. Colors make a big difference in your environment.
#42
The American Dream
Matthew Savestheworld 3 months ago
What state it that in? IT is so flat. Gotta be TX or OK or soemthing
Rich Black 3 months ago
This is Las Vegas, in case you were wondering. The stadium on the right is the new home of the las vegas raiders.
#43
Shenzhen, 1980-2025
iseefractals 3 months ago
Hmm....1980....when 90% of overall chinese population, and 96% of rural chinese lived in abject poverty. Where as today it's at 17%. Yeah....what a terrible trade off.
Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
Which is exactly the attitude that is slowly turning the planet into an unlivable husk. The idea is to care about the condition of the planet alongside the condition of the human race.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 3 months ago
no wonder china is building more coal fired electric plants than the next 10 countries combined.
#44
A New Costco Opened This Week. Everything Is Car Parking
The Majestic Opossum 3 months ago
That just means there are too many people there.
Load More Replies... Lil be lil 3 months ago
So park and walk two miles for your bulk items, at least you got some steps in....
Matthew Barabas 3 months ago
excuse me, but what can you buy at costco that you can actually *carry* home with you? exactly. its not meant for walking.
#45
Japan (It's Very Hard To Find Trash Cans There)
Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
I want to say this is likely tourist garbage, since Japanese people are in the habit of pocketing their garbage, but I also don't know how frustrating it can be when you can't really pocket the garbage, so....
Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
For the life of me I can't figure out why there are so few trash cans in Japan. Though, I will say this at least: When there are trash cans, they're frequently accompanied by a recycle bin, which is nice.
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Auntriarch 3 months ago
When my parents visited some years ago, my father asked the guide where there was a rubbish bin. She told him there weren't any because "we take our rubbish home"
Dusty's mom 3 months ago
So visitors are supposed to take rubbish back to their homelands?
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Mole People In The Philippines
Makati is the financial district of the Philippines. Recently someone saw a person coming out of a very narrow ditch. Another person chimed in with their own sightings.
We don't know yet why people are there, how many people are there, and where this narrow canal leads to. According to the post, it's possible that the narrow canal leads to wider canals.
Now, authorities are patching the openings and closing the ditch entrances.
I knew of documentaries of people living in waterways but this ditch is very narrow.
Maim 3 months ago
No actually, it's a grown woman. Some guy caught the whole thing on video of a bunch of people coming out of there.
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Egypt Is Demolishing Parts Of Cairo’s 1,200-Year-Old Al-Qarafa Cemetery—one Of The World’s Oldest Continuously Used Necropolises—to Make Way For Roads And Modern Infrastructure
John Dilligaf 3 months ago
nice things like roads and modern infrastructure?
Load More Replies... Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
I appreciate the sentiment behind the statement, but I'm pretty sure the future generation will still know about dead people.
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Regina Nox 2 months ago
Oooh, those roads are gonna be SO haunted! It's safe to say we can expect constant car accidents in those parts.
Rich Black 3 months ago
this is going to become an even bigger thing. watch as urban graveyards all over the world are demolished to provide affordable housing for the living.
Matthew Barabas 3 months ago
i dont believe in space wasting cemetaries anyway. replace them all.
#48
Vancouver, Canada
Nimitz 3 months ago
Lack of rent controls, few affordable/social new builds, relentless real-estate speculation, and REITs have driven rents beyond reason. The average rent for a one bedroom is $2500. You can expect to pay at least $4000 per month for a 2 bedroom. Meanwhile retail/service jobs avg pay is $18-20/hr. Most of the people in the street have jobs. Politicians do nothing because they invest in real-estate.
Leg less In Minneapolis 3 months ago
People criticizing the apartments in London but it looks like Canada needs them too.
Charlotte Ingle 1 month ago
Rent in Vancouver and Toronto is insanely expensive
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#49
A Crumbling Shopping Alley In Gifu, Japan
#50
Alexandria, Egypt
#51
Leicester England, 1950s
Wyrdwoman 3 months ago
I lived in Leicester in the 80s. It was a dump then and its a dump now.
Lauora 3 months ago
Parts have really picked up. It's not industrial like this now.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 3 months ago
they were probably happy just to have survived the N**i blitzkrieg bombing of world war 2
#52
Norilsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia) Is A City With Multiple Faces, Some Of Them Definitely Fit Here
#53
North Korea
Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
Likely intended to make the country seem more appealing.at a brief glance. NK has built an entire ghost city to encourage defectors from SK, painting a city in colors is not beyond them.
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#54
Cat Ba Town, Vietnam
#55
London, UK
Leg less In Minneapolis 3 months ago
What do people expect high rise apartments to look like. You have to house people somewhere
#56
Bnei Brak, Israel. 8th Most Densely Populated City
#57
More Poverty In Southern Italy
I tried to show poverty without showing Roma/refugee camps, Ik it’s just screenshots, but i lost my phone and lost the old photos i had. I still wanna visit sometime soon, most of its beautiful but let’s not ignore that there is still very real poverty in southern Italy.
#58
Kyzyl, Respublic Of Tuva. The Poorest Region Of Russia
Tyranamar Seuss 3 months ago
Looks much nicer than America's poorest places. Compared this to skid row. It's downright tidy.
#59
Norilsk, Russia
Karma Black 3 months ago
It reminds me of the sides of the puzzle boxes in the Hellraiser series.
Load More Replies... Hassel Davidhoff 3 months ago
It is one of the coldest, most polluted cities in the world. A little over 200 miles from the arctic circle. I definitely don't want to live there.
#61
Chechnya
Brandi VanSteenwyk 3 months ago
I am amazed that the car tire appears to still have air in it.
#62
Al Dana Villas - A Scar On The Beautiful Eastern Coast Of The UAE
Rich Black 3 months ago
this creation of "new land" might be preferable to building high rise towers on the existing beaches, though
#63
Traditional Back-To-Back Homes In Beeston. Photo Taken March 19, 2021, In Leeds, UK
#64
Belgrade, View From My Hotel Room
Rich Black 3 months ago
hey, cut them a break please. they've only been free of the soviet union for a 2 decades or so.
#65
Ivanovo, Russia. Before And After
Neb 2 months ago (edited)
Considering first photo looks like from Soviet Union times... I wouldn't say that it was paradise. Also, the angle of photo is pretty much different, it does not even cover the area where the flowers were.
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Lake Victoria, Uganda
#67
Genoa, Italy
Willem Andries Oosterhof 3 months ago
Probably some noted brutalise architect responsible, so significant architecture that won't go away.
Susanna Compostella 2 months ago
you're right, is a brutalist exemple of architecture
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Tuzla Bank Building, Tuzla, Bosnia & Herzegovina
YakFactory 3 months ago
A clean of the exterior would make a lot of difference. In the photo it just looks dirty and tired.
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New York Metro
turk 3 months ago
My wife, who is Russian, wanted to "ride the famous New York subway" from the airport when we visited. I wanted to take a cab, but I relented. We sure as Hell took a cab when we went back to the airport. She assumed it would be like the immaculately clean Moscow metro, which has art exhibits at every station.
#70
What's The Point Of This Balcony? (Rimini, Italy)
Paulsible deniability 3 months ago
When your wife comes home unexpectedly and you need to hide your girlfriend around the corner?
#72
Cañada Real (Spain), The Biggest Favela In Europe
Pittsburgh rare 3 months ago
That's not the whole thing. That photo is of the part where the d**g trafficking happens. There are other parts with regular houses that were built in the 60s during mass emigration to the cities from rural areas. They all lack building permits and will be eventually demolished.
#73
Soviet Experiments In Yerevan, Armenia
Rich Black 3 months ago
heroic! is there like a giant spark or electrical arc between the two nodes, ocassionally?
Max Robitzsch 3 months ago
I like that. Albeit it would seem sensible to frame a better view? Maybe it's intended to be see from the other side?
#74
Kyiv, Ukraine. Good Or Bad?
Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
It's not the color that bothers me, it's that they painted the ENTIRE building the color. I love me a good pastel shade, but you can't just paint the entire thing one color and expect it to look good.
Load More Replies... meeeeeeeeeeee 3 months ago
It's alright. Plenty of green, lots of colour, and buildings are different.
Rich Black 3 months ago
is this before for after putin's 3 years of drone attacks on civilians?
Brandi VanSteenwyk 3 months ago
Better than some... Worse than others. At least there is some grass to sit on.
David Morgan 3 months ago
Upvoting you, because taste is subjective. You haven't said anything racist or otherwise bad.
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#76
Kowloon Walled City, True Urban Hell
#77
Widest Highway In The World Is In Ontario, Canada / Highway 401 /
Toothless Feline 3 months ago
In measured width, maybe. Doesn’t even come close to the number of lanes on that 50-lane monstrosity in China.
Ace 3 months ago
...which is just a short section to allow for queuing at the toll booths.
Load More Replies... Charlotte Ingle 1 month ago
That part of the 401 crosses Toronto - lots of traffic, it's a parking lot for big sections of the day. I once got stuck in traffic on this thing at 3 am For
Load More Replies... Charlotte Ingle 1 month ago
Don't worry, it gets built up in a few km and stays they way for the next 3 hours!
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German Cities Were Demolished For Open-Cast Mining
Bored Seagull 3 months ago
Fortunately the state government and the company operating the mine came to an agreement to end mining operations by 2030. This saves several villages which had already been depopulated from being demolished, and the former inhabitants may buy back the houses they had to sell to the mining company.
#79
70 Sqm Flat Is Worth 400k USD Here, Asian Side Of Istanbul
CD Mills 3 months ago
I think we would get a better idea of size if they posted a photo of the inside rather than the outside.
Rich Black 3 months ago
400K is the price for foreigners. my brother can get you a good deal on it.
#80
A Brand New Cemented Road In Bangalore, India
Chaitanya Kishore K 2 months ago
The road has been left for RCC curing with hay drenched with water
#81
This University Building In Bangladesh Looks Like A Scene From A Dystopian Sci-Fi Film
The building in question is BRAC university campus located in Dhaka | Photo by arekta_photogram on Instagram.
#82
Baghdad’s Arab Shore Promenade: From A Green Oasis In 1993 To A Concrete Desert By 2025
Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
Not true, I don't think it's legal to park there. Statistically speaking, there was probably a big yellow taxi that arrived at some point to take someone's girl away, though. (Have my upvote, love that song)
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Al Ba'sa Building, Beirut: A 60cm Wide Building Built By A Man To Obstruct His Brother’s Sea View After A Real Estate Dispute
In 1954, a thin wedge-shaped building was erected by architects Salah and Fawzi Itani on a 120 sq m plot in Beirut, Lebanon at the request of a man wanting to spoil the sea view of his brother after they failed to agree to jointly develop their neighboring plots. The street facade appears to be an ordinary apartment building, but is 60 cm at the narrowest and four meters at the widest. It is known as Al Ba'sa (The Middle Finger) and formerly as The Queen Mary due to its resemblance to the cruise ship.
#84
Potholes On Railway. Guess The Country (Not Japan)
Norm Gilmore 3 months ago
Seems so. In the Reddit article the consensus is Russia.
Load More Replies... Max Robitzsch 3 months ago
Sorry, but to me that clearly seems the aftermath of a natural disaster or similar.
#85
Turkey Is The Largest Destination For Waste Exported From The EU
Rich Black 3 months ago
just say no. you don't have to keep renewing your contract to get this stuff.
#86
Jinan University Dormitories, China
#87
A Girl Rides The Subway In NYC In 1986
#88
Urban Sculpture Disasters Of Turkey
#89
New Delhi Train Station
Rich Black 3 months ago
stop complaining about affordable public transportation. the whole world cant convert to plug in EVs overnight.
#90
Panelkas With Bridges, Tbilisi, Georgia
#91
Hanoi, Vietnam During Foggy Night
#92
An Alley In Kabukicho, Tokyo's Largest Red Light District
Rich Black 3 months ago
wait - japan has both a red light district AND federal laws against p**n/film nudity? whose idea was this?
#93
In A Love Hate Relationship With This Building
"White Magnolia", Batumi, Georgia
#94
Modern Korean Cities Are Pretty Ugly
Rich Black 3 months ago
"pretty ugly" - oxymoron of the year. those buildings are a little big, too.
#96
Moscow
Rich Black 3 months ago
they have cars, elevators, running water, and electricity 24/7. beauty is a luxury demanded by western elites.
Neb 2 months ago
Soviet time buildings, and later some people individually upgraded the balconies by adding windows and making them into tiny storages/porches. The bigger issue is lack of parking spots, though I guess this still have pretty good public transportation, and trees are not removed.
#97
New York City In The 1970s
During this decade, the city gained notoriety for high rates of crime and social disorders; the city’s subway system was regarded as unsafe and dangerous, and people were warned not to walk the streets after 6 PM. Prostitutes and pimps frequented Times Square, while Central Park became feared as the site of muggings and harassment.
Hassel Davidhoff 3 months ago
And without that reputation we wouldn't have the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So it was a fair trade.
#98
Taipei, Taiwan
#99
Guangzhou, China 🇨🇳
David Morgan 3 months ago
I think the colour is so vivid because it's a painted surface, not grass. I might be wrong.
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Wanhua, Taipei. 1965 V.s. 2025
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Grm Moore 3 months ago
How about the US cattle farms. Cattle concentration camps. Saw a doco on it, aerial view. Not a blade of grass anywhere for miles. Truck in feed, truck out meat. 13,000 litres of water to make 1kg beef. And Nevada, LA, rivers that don't reach the sea anymore, aquifer water vanishing. There are TOO MANY people. Everywhere.
CD Mills 3 months ago
You are thinking about a Feed Yard, or holding pens at a slaughterhouse, and yeah they suck. It's the last stop before the slaughterhouse. Cattle ranches cover Sections of land, one Section is one square mile. We lived on one place that was twenty sections (20 sq miles) and the next place we moved to was two hundred and fifty sections, yes, the ranch was 250 sq miles. We had plenty of forage for the livestock we ran.
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Laura Aho 2 months ago
I feel some of this is quite snobbish; if people have a clean, safe, warm place to live with plumbing, electricity, and running water, it's a win. Aesthetics are subjective. Not everyone can or even wants to live in a one family house, personally I don't want to spend my time mowing the lawn or gardening, or fixing the roof or shoveling snow so an appartment building is perfect for me.
Peeka_Mimi 3 months ago
I like big cities with lots of skyscrapers. I live in Downtown Aurora, Colorado, about 6 miles from Downtown Denver. I prefer urban living, sometimes I need to escape to the mountains, but I need my city.
Raven/Bunny 1 month ago
The neighborhood around Bruxelles-Nord (the train station) is jarring too. Sky high glass office buildings, and close by, apartment buldings that look like they're crumbling and one big storm away from being leveled
Grm Moore 3 months ago
How about the US cattle farms. Cattle concentration camps. Saw a doco on it, aerial view. Not a blade of grass anywhere for miles. Truck in feed, truck out meat. 13,000 litres of water to make 1kg beef. And Nevada, LA, rivers that don't reach the sea anymore, aquifer water vanishing. There are TOO MANY people. Everywhere.
CD Mills 3 months ago
You are thinking about a Feed Yard, or holding pens at a slaughterhouse, and yeah they suck. It's the last stop before the slaughterhouse. Cattle ranches cover Sections of land, one Section is one square mile. We lived on one place that was twenty sections (20 sq miles) and the next place we moved to was two hundred and fifty sections, yes, the ranch was 250 sq miles. We had plenty of forage for the livestock we ran.
Load More Replies... Laura Aho 2 months ago
I feel some of this is quite snobbish; if people have a clean, safe, warm place to live with plumbing, electricity, and running water, it's a win. Aesthetics are subjective. Not everyone can or even wants to live in a one family house, personally I don't want to spend my time mowing the lawn or gardening, or fixing the roof or shoveling snow so an appartment building is perfect for me.
Peeka_Mimi 3 months ago
I like big cities with lots of skyscrapers. I live in Downtown Aurora, Colorado, about 6 miles from Downtown Denver. I prefer urban living, sometimes I need to escape to the mountains, but I need my city.
Raven/Bunny 1 month ago
The neighborhood around Bruxelles-Nord (the train station) is jarring too. Sky high glass office buildings, and close by, apartment buldings that look like they're crumbling and one big storm away from being leveled
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