Mankind is kind of like a plague on the world and if you don’t believe me then you only have to look at these images that can only be described as ‘urban hell’.
Okay, we build some pretty impressive structures such as the Eiffel Tower, Westminster Abbey, St Basil’s Cathedral, and the Empire State Building.
If we venture into the less affluent areas of some of the world’s largest metropolis’s then we get a different picture. With the world getting more and more populated and these people have got to go live somewhere. It’s all about squeezing as many people into one area. What we get is an ugly, overcrowded, concrete hell. It is amazing that the infrastructure manages to cope.
If these images don’t give you anxiety then nothing will. You can see more Urban Hell right here r/UrbanHell.
Welcome to Hong Kong street life
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Feeling anxious yet?
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I can see my house from here
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An interesting perspective
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The annual monsoon ritual of Mumbai’s ocean giving back what has been dumped in it
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People offering prayers at River Yamuna, India, which is frothing from industrial waste
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Block 23, New Belgrade, Serbia
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The opening to Hell!
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Just imagine waking up to this
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Somewhere in Brazil in the 90’s
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Monorail actually cutting through a residential building
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Before And After A Desert Is Turned Into A Soulless Suburb Of A Desert. Jk, It’s A Single Photo Of Arizona
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No, this isn’t a clever advert for a car or a video game. It’s a helicoidal street in Chongqing
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No, this isn’t a surreal painting this is actually private houses on the roof of an eight-story mall in Private houses on the roof of an eight-story mall in Zhūzhōu, China
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New Delhi – Lockdown vs now
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I wouldn’t want to troubleshoot this electrical wiring and water pipes in a Brazilian Favela
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Welcome to Mumbai
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Ahhh, this hotel looks like an ideal place to stay… Stands back… Oh!
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This view at Beirut Port
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If you can find a space just build a house on it!
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That’s progress I guess!
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One more lane will fix it
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Nobody:
Southwest US developers:
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Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong. Comparison of 1964 – 2016
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Literally, just Thanksgiving traffic in LA
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This is the real physical equivalent of ad popups!
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Billionaires mansion atop a skyscraper in Bangalore, India
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I wouldn’t want to be a postman delivering to this neighbourhood!
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Cairo, Egypt
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Not a very romantic scene
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All Residents Of Whittier, Alaska Live Inside One Building
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Downtown Seattle, in the heart of the retail district
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Security on Johannesburg, South Africa
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Ghost city in China made to be a replica of Paris – Tianducheng
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The irony
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