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 Ah Yes, Trees
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#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 A Photo Of Central Park During The Great Depression (New York, 1933)
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#4 San Francisco, USA
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#5 Macau
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#6 Children Playing Basketball Near The John E. Amos Coal-Fired Power Plant In Poca, West Virginia
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#7 A Boy Gathers Recyclable Items From A Semi-Dry Drain, At Taimoor Nagar In New Delhi
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#8 Guangzhou Aerial
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#9 Town Square In Bartoszyce (Poland) Before And After
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#10 16th Century Mill Surrounded By Brand New Concrete In Seaside Bulgaria
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#11 Fencemageddon 2 - The Panelling! Pretty Standard View Of English / Irish Estates
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#12 This Beautiful View From My NYC Apartment
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#13 Huntington Beach, California, During The Oil Boom Of 1928
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#14 L.A.'s Concrete River
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#15 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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#16 "Vertical Slum" Luanda Angola
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#17 Residential Building In Hong Kong, Shot By Me On 35mm Film
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#18 Disgusting Canal Near My Home In Manila. I Wish People Just Would Bother To Care How Our Environment Is Dying Fast
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#19 Only Surviving Photo Of A Hoarder House Demolished Around 2007 In Nagoya, Japan
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#20 The Mesmerizing Beauty Of Santorini
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#21 Inequality In Tembisa, South Africa
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#22 The Flag Of Urban Hell
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#23 Burj Al Babas, Turkey (The Largest Ghost Town In The World)
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#24 Mumbai, India. Lives Are Stacked Up Because They Are Poor
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#25 Preschool In Newark, NJ, 1994
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#26 Atlanta, Us Is Just A Huge Highway With Some Buildings On The Side
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#27 Abidjan, Ivory Coast
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#28 "Lying Skyscraper" In Moscow. About 736m Long
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#29 Wuhan, China
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#30 Norilsk, Russia
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#31 23-Story Archive Without Windows, Duisburg, Germany
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#32 Beautiful Pittsburgh Architecture
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#33 Amazon’s New Fulfillment Center In Tijuana, Mexico
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#34 Bliska Wola Tower, Warsaw, Poland. Sunlight Rarely Reaches The Bottom Floors, And Some Apartments Are As Small As 18 M²
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#35 This Dunkin Donuts
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#36 Cairo , Egypt
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#37 A Silk Road
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#38 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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#39 Many People Told Me That This Looks Like An Urban Dystopia
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#40 My Dorm At The University Of South Carolina (1998), Since Demolished
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#41 A Graveyard In Hong Kong
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#42 Las Vegas...
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#43 Is Dubai A Common Repost
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#44 Got The Apartment With A Sea View In Batumi
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#45 Copy Paste
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#46 Edifício São Vito, A Notorious Vertical Slum In São Paulo, Brazil - The Internal Corridors Were 80 Cm (31 In) Wide
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#47 Ryugyong Hotel
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#48 Another One For Orange Day In San Francisco Last Year
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#49 Apartment Building In Tel Aviv, Israel
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#50 Margate, United Kingdom
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#51 Palladium Hell
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#52 A View From My Hotel Room In Hong Kong
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#53 New Orleans, A Sinking City
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#54 Visiting This Russian City? Why Not Stay In This Hotel Built Right Behind The Local Factory
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#55 Neighborhood Near A Coal Powered Power Plant In Bogatynia, Poland
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#56 Paris, France. A Studio In The Building Between The Boulevard And The Train Rails Highways Starts At 800€/Months. If You Qualify!
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#57 Distance Between Two Apartments, Guangzhou
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#58 Dream Courtyard Between 4 Buildings Near My Work, The Floor Is Actually Painted Green
Image credits: Lorenzo_Zaver
#59 Residence Underneath A Highway In Naples, Italy
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#60 A Normal Day In The Capital City Of Mongolia
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#61 What Italian Cities Actually Look Like. This Is Milan For You
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#62 Business Is Booming
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#63 Intersection Of Two Avenues In Sao Paulo, Brazil
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#64 Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, And Its Absurdly Sprawling And Wasteful Parking Lot
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#65 A Famous Bank In Pau, France
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#66 Inequality In Mumbai, India
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