Comfort, better education, and jobs, among other things, draw people to cities. The pull is so strong that more than half of the world’s population already lives in urban environments. But the comforts and conveniences of the cities don’t come without a price. Pollution, biodiversity loss, rising crime rates, and living costs are just a few things that are changing our planet for the worse.
Urbanization has become a man-made hell that we now have to live in, and to prove it even further, we compiled a list of pictures from the Urban Hell subreddit that expose the price of modern life. To find them, all you have to do is scroll down.
#1 Cleaning Up A Canal In Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ramchandra canal in Mohammadpur, Dhaka, which has been cleaned up and restored in 72 hours as part of ongoing efforts to clean up revitalise Bangladeshi canals. Led by NGOs with sponsorship from a bank and support from the government and the city corporation. Hopefully we can keep it this way!
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#2 Spotted In Barcelona
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#3 Boston Before And After The Highway Was Moved Underground In 2003
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#4 Reflection Of Inequalities
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#5 Urban Hell Reversal
Beijing’s Liangma River went from a dry, cracked canal in the late ’90s to a green, thriving part of the city by 2025. Clean water, tree-lined walkways, and modern buildings from city planning.
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#6 Rich vs. Poor In Buenos Aires, Argentina
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#7 South Korea’s Capital Looks Like It Has No Seoul
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#8 My View From My Hotel In Manila, Philippines
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#9 Western World’s E-Waste In Ghana
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#10 North Korean Government-Built Countryside Homes
Rows upon endless rows of identical bland and monotonous, perfectly symmetrical houses in a newly opened countryside residential complex in North Korea.
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#11 Cages In Chongqing, China
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#12 A Stunning Example Of Cable Management Spotted In Bangladesh
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#13 Nad Al Sheba Neighborhood In Dubai, UAE
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#14 Haiti – 10 Years After Earthquake. Photo By Paolo Woods
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#15 Hong Kong In 1964 And Now
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#16 Amsterdam, Nl 🇳🇱
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#17 Dubai Partition Room For Rent $1,000 Month
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#18 Delhi
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#19 New Delhi Cows
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#20 Kathmandu Is The Most Polluted City In The World Right Now According To AQI
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#21 Modernizing City Blocks In Austria (2019 And 2023)
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#22 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
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#23 Anti-Homeless Architecture, USA/UK
Fixing a problem with a problem.
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#24 Apartment Buildings In Chongqing, China
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#25 They Replaced A Masterpiece With A Spreadsheet
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#26 World’s Biggest Tire Graveyard In Kuwait
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#27 Novi Beograd
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#28 Kolkata, India
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#29 Bridge Built Over A 17th Century Castle Ruins
📍Kajaani, Finland
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#30 Inequality In Manila
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#31 Tyumen, Russia. It Looks Like A Montage, But It Isn’t
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#32 Taj Mahal, India
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#33 Egypt’s New Administrative Capital – A $58 Billion Ghost City
Planned as a solution to Cairo’s congestion, the NAC aims to house government buildings, embassies, and millions of residents. The trip itself was an experience—an hour-long Uber ride from Cairo, passing through three security checkpoints before entering. Security presence was unmistakable: police, military patrols, and constant surveillance. Yet, aside from them and a few gardeners, the city felt almost deserted.
However, despite its scale, the NAC raises concerns about affordability, social impact, and whether it will truly alleviate Cairo’s urban pressures or remain a prestige project benefiting a select few.
Urbanist and architect Yasser Elsheshtawy captures this sentiment well.
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#34 Manaus, Brazil
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#35 Malé, Capital Of The Maldives
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#36 China’s 50 Lane Traffic, G4 Expressway
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#37 Alexandria, Egypt
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#38 The American Dream
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#39 Aerial View Of São Paulo, The Most Populous City In The Americas With 22 Million Inhabitants
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#40 Jakarta Traffic 🇮🇩
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#41 Really .. What Were They Thinking?
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#42 A Graffiti Piece Across 50 Buildings In Cairo, By El Seed
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#43 Shenzhen, 1980-2025
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#44 A New Costco Opened This Week. Everything Is Car Parking
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#45 Japan (It’s Very Hard To Find Trash Cans There)
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#46 Mole People In The Philippines
Makati is the financial district of the Philippines. Recently someone saw a person coming out of a very narrow ditch. Another person chimed in with their own sightings.
We don’t know yet why people are there, how many people are there, and where this narrow canal leads to. According to the post, it’s possible that the narrow canal leads to wider canals.
Now, authorities are patching the openings and closing the ditch entrances.
I knew of documentaries of people living in waterways but this ditch is very narrow.
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#47 A Crumbling Shopping Alley In Gifu, Japan
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#48 Egypt Is Demolishing Parts Of Cairo’s 1,200-Year-Old Al-Qarafa Cemetery—one Of The World’s Oldest Continuously Used Necropolises—to Make Way For Roads And Modern Infrastructure
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#49 Vancouver, Canada
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#50 Leicester England, 1950s
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