People On This Group Are Sharing Examples Of ‘Urban Hell’ That Look Like A Dystopian Movie But Are Sadly Real (66 New Pics)

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 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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#2 A Photo Of Central Park During The Great Depression (New York, 1933)

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#3 Ah Yes, Trees

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#4 San Francisco, USA

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#5 Children Playing Basketball Near The John E. Amos Coal-Fired Power Plant In Poca, West Virginia

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#6 Fencemageddon 2 - The Panelling! Pretty Standard View Of English / Irish Estates

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#7 L.A.'s Concrete River

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#8 This Beautiful View From My NYC Apartment

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#9 Guangzhou Aerial

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#10 16th Century Mill Surrounded By Brand New Concrete In Seaside Bulgaria

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#11 Macau

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#12 Amazon’s New Fulfillment Center In Tijuana, Mexico

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#13 "Vertical Slum" Luanda Angola

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#14 Beautiful Pittsburgh Architecture

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#15 The Flag Of Urban Hell

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#16 A Silk Road

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#17 Mumbai, India. Lives Are Stacked Up Because They Are Poor

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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 Town Square In Bartoszyce (Poland) Before And After

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#20 Abidjan, Ivory Coast

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#21 Preschool In Newark, NJ, 1994

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#22 Only Surviving Photo Of A Hoarder House Demolished Around 2007 In Nagoya, Japan

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#23 Residential Building In Hong Kong, Shot By Me On 35mm Film

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#24 23-Story Archive Without Windows, Duisburg, Germany

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#25 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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#26 Huntington Beach, California, During The Oil Boom Of 1928

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#27 My Dorm At The University Of South Carolina (1998), Since Demolished

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#28 Edifício São Vito, A Notorious Vertical Slum In São Paulo, Brazil - The Internal Corridors Were 80 Cm (31 In) Wide

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#29 Cairo , Egypt

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#30 Norilsk, Russia

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#31 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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#32 Neighborhood Near A Coal Powered Power Plant In Bogatynia, Poland

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#33 Another One For Orange Day In San Francisco Last Year

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#34 Visiting This Russian City? Why Not Stay In This Hotel Built Right Behind The Local Factory

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#35 Ryugyong Hotel

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#36 Copy Paste

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#37 Got The Apartment With A Sea View In Batumi

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#38 Is Dubai A Common Repost

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#39 A View From My Hotel Room In Hong Kong

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#40 New Orleans, A Sinking City

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#41 Palladium Hell

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#42 Margate, United Kingdom

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#43 Apartment Building In Tel Aviv, Israel

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#44 Distance Between Two Apartments, Guangzhou

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#45 Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, And Its Absurdly Sprawling And Wasteful Parking Lot

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#46 Las Vegas...

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#47 A Graveyard In Hong Kong

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#48 Inequality In Tembisa, South Africa

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#49 Intersection Of Two Avenues In Sao Paulo, Brazil

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#50 Business Is Booming

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#51 Wuhan, China

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#52 "Lying Skyscraper" In Moscow. About 736m Long

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#53 Many People Told Me That This Looks Like An Urban Dystopia

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#54 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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#55 Atlanta, Us Is Just A Huge Highway With Some Buildings On The Side

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#56 What Italian Cities Actually Look Like. This Is Milan For You

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#57 Burj Al Babas, Turkey (The Largest Ghost Town In The World)

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#58 A Normal Day In The Capital City Of Mongolia

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#59 A Boy Gathers Recyclable Items From A Semi-Dry Drain, At Taimoor Nagar In New Delhi

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#60 Residence Underneath A Highway In Naples, Italy

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#61 The Mesmerizing Beauty Of Santorini

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#62 Dream Courtyard Between 4 Buildings Near My Work, The Floor Is Actually Painted Green

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#63 Bliska Wola Tower, Warsaw, Poland. Sunlight Rarely Reaches The Bottom Floors, And Some Apartments Are As Small As 18 M²

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#64 This Dunkin Donuts

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#65 Inequality In Mumbai, India

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#66 A Famous Bank In Pau, France

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