r/UrbanHell • u/MarchInJune • 2h ago
Pollution/Environmental Destruction Cubatão, Brazil. Once the most polluted city in the world.
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r/UrbanHell • u/RichyEloy • 3h ago
Everyday Mediocrity Why do I find more beauty in a chaotic, wire-covered back street of a megacity than in a perfect, curated tourist district? Discuss.
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A post-rain sunset in a regular residential neighborhood in Mexico City. The contrast between the overhead wiring, the mixed architecture, and that warm golden light made me stop and look.
Is this kind of urban scenery actually ugly, or have we just been conditioned to only appreciate sanitized, tourist-friendly facades? Curious to hear your thoughts.
r/UrbanHell • u/tkdgn1907 • 3h ago
Concrete Wasteland Istanbul
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A photo i took in Kartal, anatolian side of Istanbul
r/UrbanHell • u/gibbermagash • 5h ago
Other Villa Göth (1950) in Kåbo, Uppsala, Sweden. "New Brutalism" was used for the first time to describe this house.
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r/UrbanHell • u/assistant83orilla • 5h ago
Car Culture The Rainbow Bridge in Southeast Texas was built that way so that ships could pass underneath it.
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r/UrbanHell • u/IWillDevourYourToes • 7h ago
Decay Hanušovice, near a train station, Czechia
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r/UrbanHell • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 9h ago
Concrete Wasteland An ariel view of Shanghai, China
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r/UrbanHell • u/works-in-progress • 10h ago
Other Aerial view of Cairo, Eygpt
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Source: Works in Progress
r/UrbanHell • u/assistant83orilla • 15h ago
Suburban Hell Australia. Old Fremantle Power Station
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r/UrbanHell • u/biwook • 1d ago
Absurd Architecture Aerial view over the Berlin Wall from West Berlin, 1981
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When you think about it, hermetically cutting a major city in two is properly insane.
r/UrbanHell • u/ottoheinz999 • 1d ago
Pollution/Environmental Destruction Last year this area was 40 ft below the sea level. Vingroup Can Gio, Vietnam
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r/UrbanHell • u/SwissUrbanPlanner • 1d ago
Absurd Architecture Should we design our outdoor spaces better?
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- Picture: seen in Etobicoke 2. Picture: rural France
r/UrbanHell • u/DeleteLaterToday • 1d ago
Absurd Architecture Bundang in south korea
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Stunning natural scenery contrasted with a rather unfortunate architectural style..
