Dan
Sure, living in a city has its upsides. For instance, I can order Thai food from 7 different locations within a mile radius of my apartment.
The best part? My place is so small, it feels like room service when the food gets delivered.
Other aspects of living in a city, however, are downright tragic. Sadly, pictures of the real world are starting to look more and more like Blade Runner. At least we’ll get sentient sex robots soon? That’s kind of fun?
The Reddit forum devoted to revealing our current crowded dystopia is called r/UrbanHell. It’s exactly what it sounds like.
If you’re thinking of getting into urban planning, please do it quickly before Elon Musk and Bezos have all the control.
Here are the most interesting but also tragic photos of terrible urban design:
1. Amazon’s new fulfillment center in Tijuana, Mexico.
2. A normal day in the capital city of Mongolia.
3. Intersection of two avenues in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
4. Children playing basketball near the John E. Amos coal-fired power plant in Poca, West Virginia.
5. A photo of Central Park during the Great Depression (New York, 1933).
6. Neighborhood near a coal powered power plant in Bogatynia, Poland.
7. “Lying skyscraper” in Moscow. About 736m long.
8. Only surviving photo of a hoarder house demolished around 2007 in Nagoya, Japan.
9. Dubai.
10. This absolutely depressing “dog park” I saw today, the grass was fake by the way.
11. Playground in new polish dwelling in Wrocław.
12. Johannesburg, South Africa.
13. Not a very romantic scene.
14. Before and After a desert is turned into a soulless suburb of a desert. Just kidding, it’s a single photo of Arizona.
15. Downtown Seattle, in the heart of the retail district.
16. Hong Kong
17. One more lane will fix it.
18. All residents of Whittier, Alaska live inside one building.
19. Mumbai, India
20. Beirut Port
21. Private houses on the roof of an eight-story mall in Zhūzhōu, China.
22. Hong Kong street life
23. People offering prayers at River Yamuna, India, which is frothing from industrial waste.
24. People living next to a helicoidal street in Chongqing.
25. An interesting perspective I’ve stumbled upon in Macau a year ago.
26. Manila, Philippines
27. Naples, Italy
28. Cairo, Egypt
29. Petare, Venezuela.
30. Hyderabad, India
31. UAE Nad Al Sheba III neighborhood.
32. The annual monsoon ritual of Mumbai’s ocean giving back what has been dumped in it.
33. Hotel in Łodz, Poland
34. Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong. Comparison of 1964 – 2016.
35. New Delhi – during lockdown vs now.
36. It’s baffling how fast it changes.
37. Electrical wiring and water pipes in a Brazilian favela.
38. Literally, just Thanksgiving traffic in LA.
Reddit: r/UrbanHell