Imagine waking up in a dystopian world where all trees are plastic, where all streets are buried in piles of trash, where pollution is so bad you can’t see the sky, and where rivers have turned into concrete.
Well, in fact, this is already happening in some places around the world, according to the eye-opening subreddit named Urban Hell. Its 689k members share “all the hideous places human beings built or inhabit,” according to the group’s description and you can see these are not pretty.
Scroll through the real-life examples of urban hell below that reveal the dark side of modern development that often remains invisible. Psst! More urban hell examples can be found in our previous post right here.
#1 A Boy Gathers Recyclable Items From A Semi-Dry Drain, At Taimoor Nagar In New Delhi
Image source: ParaMike46
#2 Magnitogorsk, One Of The Worst Polluted Cities In Russia. Only 28% Of The Children Born In The Town Are Fully Healthy
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#3 Inequality In Tembisa, South Africa
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#4 Ah Yes, Trees
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#5 San Francisco, USA
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#6 Norilsk, Russia
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#7 A Photo Of Central Park During The Great Depression (New York, 1933)
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#8 Town Square In Bartoszyce (Poland) Before And After
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#9 Residential Building In Hong Kong, Shot By Me On 35mm Film
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#10 Burj Al Babas, Turkey (The Largest Ghost Town In The World)
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#11 Disgusting Canal Near My Home In Manila. I Wish People Just Would Bother To Care How Our Environment Is Dying Fast
Image source: AgentFive005
#12 Ferentari, The Poorest Area Of Bucharest, Romania – Most Apartments Are Squatted And Have No Electricity, Hard To Believe This Is In The European Union
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#13 The Flag Of Urban Hell
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#14 Las Vegas
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#15 Macau
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#16 Huntington Beach, California, During The Oil Boom Of 1928
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#17 Not Sure If This Fits The Sub, Gallons And Gallons Of Water Wasted Just To Keep Lush Green Golf Fields In The Middle Of The Desert
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#18 This Beautiful View From My NYC Apartment
Image source: SlenderFinger
#19 16th Century Mill Surrounded By Brand New Concrete In Seaside Bulgaria
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#20 Guangzhou Aerial
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#21 “Lying Skyscraper” In Moscow. About 736m Long
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#22 Intersection Of Two Avenues In Sao Paulo, Brazil
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#23 “Vertical Slum” Luanda Angola
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#24 Margate, United Kingdom
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#25 Children Playing Basketball Near The John E. Amos Coal-Fired Power Plant In Poca, West Virginia
Image source: ParaMike46
#26 Distance Between Two Apartments, Guangzhou
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#27 Inequality In Mumbai, India
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#28 A Graveyard In Hong Kong
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#29 Bliska Wola Tower, Warsaw, Poland. Sunlight Rarely Reaches The Bottom Floors, And Some Apartments Are As Small As 18 M²
Image source: gaymeteorologistlol
#30 Only Surviving Photo Of A Hoarder House Demolished Around 2007 In Nagoya, Japan
Image source: biwook
#31 Preschool In Newark, NJ, 1994
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#32 Copy Paste
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#33 Wuhan, China
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#34 Abidjan, Ivory Coast
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#35 My Dorm At The University Of South Carolina (1998), Since Demolished
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#36 Paris, France. A Studio In The Building Between The Boulevard And The Train Rails Highways Starts At 800€/Months. If You Qualify!
Image source: NormPa
#37 Amazon’s New Fulfillment Center In Tijuana, Mexico
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#38 Beautiful Pittsburgh Architecture
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#39 A Famous Bank In Pau, France
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#40 Fencemageddon 2 – The Panelling! Pretty Standard View Of English / Irish Estates
Image source: ParaMike46
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